use warnings; use strict; use Test::More tests => 6; use Attribute::StringifiableInteger; my $integer : StringifiableInteger = 1; ok($integer == 1); is($integer, 'one'); is(sprintf("%d",$integer), 1); is(sprintf("%s",$integer), 'one'); $integer = 3; $integer += 1; is($integer, 'four'); $integer++; is($integer, 'five'); #### use warnings; use strict; package StringifiableInteger; use Carp; use overload '""' => \&_to_string, '0+' => \&_get, '++' => sub { my ($self) = @_; $$self += 1; return 'looks like the return value is not used.'; }, fallback => 1, ; my $regex_integer = qr{ ^ -? \d+ $ }x; sub new { my ($class) = @_; my $integer; bless \$integer, $class; } sub set { my ($self, $value) = @_; croak "invalid integer value ($value)" unless $value =~ $regex_integer; $$self = $value; } my @stringified = qw/zero one two three four five six seven eight nine ten/; sub _to_string { my ($self) = @_; return $stringified[$$self]; } sub _get { my ($self) = @_; return $$self; } package TieStringifiableInteger; sub TIESCALAR { my ($class) = @_; my $integer = StringifiableInteger->new; bless \$integer, $class; } sub STORE { my ($self, $value) = @_; $$self->set($value); } sub FETCH { my ($self) = @_; return $$self; } package AttributeStringifiableInteger; use Attribute::Handlers; sub UNIVERSAL::StringifiableInteger : ATTR(SCALAR) { my ($referent) = @_[2..2]; tie $$referent, 'TieStringifiableInteger'; } 1; #### use Attribute::StringifiableInteger lang => 'tr'; #### my $integer : StringifiableInteger('tr');