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A question re: the article (Score:1)

by VSarkiss (704) on 2003.07.23 10:59 (#22368) Journal

Very nice article, I liked it.

A question, though: I admit I don't understand all the magic behind overloading constants, but shouldn't the example on page 2
return __PACKAGE__->new($_[0]) || $_[1]
be testing the result of the constructor call with defined()? Is it possible, with all the overloading going on, that the result of new('0/1') would be interpreted as a number 0 and thus appear to fail?

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