in reply to Perly way of handling coordinates?
Perhaps Math::Vector? It'd still do the addition correctly without a third dimension.
Though, it's really just:
my $a1 = [1,2]; bless $a1, "test"; my $a2 = [2,4]; my $a3 = $a1+$a2; print "@$a3\n"; package test; use strict; use overload '+' => sub { bless [ $_[0][0]+$_[1][0], $_[0][1]+$_[1][1] ], ref $_[0] }; # NOTE: I'm ignoring an important third argument that you'd need to ch +eck # if you wanted to support subtraction 1;
UPDATE: I didn't notice that moritz wrote basically the exact same thing as the above, sorry. I'm leaving it because it's a slightly different style.
-Paul
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