Re^2: Is there a wantobject like wantarray?

FWIW, choroba’s approach, stringification through overload is easy, somewhat popular, and though it has a gotcha here and there, I appreciate it much more than I am irritated by it.

Want is a bit magical, has a handful of segfault tickets open on it, and I’ve never seen it used anywhere in the wild.

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Re^3: Is there a wantobject like wantarray? by LanX (Saint) on Sep 25, 2014 at 16:18 UTC
> somewhat popular ... may I ask where? :) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)}	[reply]
Re^4: Is there a wantobject like wantarray? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 25, 2014 at 16:27 UTC
I use it so it must be popular! URI , Path::Class (update: should mention Path::Tiny too as it’s starting to replace the Path::Class stuff for me), a bunch of Mojo stuff come to mind… a good handful of others in my tree. :P `ack use\ overload /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.2/ \| ack '""' \| +wc -l 74` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Is there a wantobject like wantarray? by LanX (Saint) on Sep 25, 2014 at 16:40 UTC
> I use it so it must be popular! Well ... you certainly think you are funny ... ¹ Do you know if this approach involves changing the nature² of the scalar after its first use, to speed up things afterwards? (Maybe I'm confusing this now with quantum superposition magic ...) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)} ¹) you are! ;-) ²) i.e. unblessing	[reply]
Re^6: Is there a wantobject like wantarray? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 25, 2014 at 17:36 UTC
Re^7: Is there a wantobject like wantarray? by LanX (Saint) on Sep 26, 2014 at 10:36 UTC