Re: Overloading oddity

Try this:

sub name {
    $_[0]{NAME} = $_[1] if defined $_[1];
    $_[0]{NAME};
}
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Re: Re: Overloading oddity by theguvnor (Chaplain) on Jan 28, 2004 at 14:47 UTC
Good on you dragonchild. I tend to not work with elements of @_ directly as I'm always afraid that the "readability police" will get me ;-) but that snippet is fairly clean and clear. Always good to make the brain re-examine its assumptions. Thanks. [Jon]	[reply]