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What problem were you solving? (Score:2)

by petdance (2468)

What's the problem that you were solving? I'm thinking that maybe this reference matching is really a different problem.

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- Re:What problem were you solving? (Score:1)
  
  by speters (1787) on 2004.03.01 10:18 (#28931) Homepage Journal
  
  I am testing to ensure that an object returned by a function is actually the same object received by a previous call to this function. In OO terms, I testing to make sure a class is a Singleton.
  
  I tried the XS route, until Randal's suggestion above, because I needed the address of what the RV*'s were pointing to. The new route of is((ref $a && ref $b && $a == $b), 1) isn't pretty, but it works just fine. Also, I got a good look at how Test::Builder and Test::Builder::Tester work, so I wouldn't say my little exercise was a total waste of time. A cleaned up version of the is above might be nice, but I doubt if there are people clammoring for a new module to come out of that.
  
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