Re: Use of '""' overload in Dpkg::Interface::Storable
Hi Modestas,
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Modestas Vainius wrote:
> I suggest you dropping this overload as generally it might be very tricky and
> there is not much benefit over explicit method call. For example, if $storable
> was an object of Dpkg::Interface::Storable type 'if ($storable)' would trigger
> this overload. Probably use of 'defined' would help here to avoid it but it is
> far from obvious. There might be other cases and contexts where this overload
> is triggered pointlessly as well.
Please use the mailing list to discuss dpkg matters. At least we can get
some more feedback.
I honestly don't see a valid reason to remove the overload in your
argumentation. If it starts to cause some specific problems, we can either
fix the code or add a supplementary overload in the problematic object
(the "bool" one in your case).
Cheers,
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