Creating a class that acts as a descriptor

dragonchild has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I know that doing "use overload (<>) { ... };" will allow you to treat a given object as a descriptor to read from, but how can you do that for writing?

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Re: Creating a class that acts as a descriptor by bikeNomad (Priest) on Jun 29, 2001 at 23:14 UTC
Why not just tie it to a handle? See Tie::Handle, specifically Tie::StdHandle for an easy way. You don't have to overload <> to do this, either.	[reply]
Re: Creating a class that acts as a descriptor by japhy (Canon) on Jun 30, 2001 at 00:24 UTC
Make a `print` method for it. `package CanPrint; sub new { ... } sub print { ... } package main; my $x = CanPrint->new; print $x "this\n"; # like $x->print("this\n");` [download] `japhy` -- Perl and Regex Hacker	[reply] [d/l]