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Operator overload in Perl
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#!/usr/bin/env perl | |
use strict; | |
use warnings; | |
use File::Basename; | |
use lib dirname(__FILE__); | |
{ | |
package GS_URI; | |
use strict; | |
use warnings; | |
use parent 'URI'; | |
use Scalar::Util qw(blessed); | |
use overload | |
'""' => sub { $_[0]->canonical }, | |
'eq' => sub { | |
my($self, $other) = @_; | |
print STDERR "overloaded eq\n"; | |
print STDERR "\$self: object - $self->{uri}\n"; | |
if( blessed $other && $other->isa(__PACKAGE__) ) { | |
print STDERR "\$other: object - $other->{uri}\n"; | |
} | |
else { | |
print STDERR "\$other: string - $other\n"; | |
$other = __PACKAGE__->new($other) unless blessed $other; | |
} | |
return $self->canonical eq $other->canonical; | |
}, | |
fallback => 1; | |
sub new { | |
my $class = shift; | |
my $uri = URI->new(@_); | |
return bless { uri => $uri }, $class; | |
} | |
sub canonical { | |
return $_[0]->{uri}->canonical; | |
} | |
} | |
my $uri1 = GS_URI->new("http://x.com/ blah /"); | |
my $uri2 = "http://x.com/%20blah /"; | |
# operator overloading works even if one side isn't an object | |
print "Yes\n" if $uri1 eq $uri2; | |
# order doesn't matter | |
print "Yes\n" if $uri2 eq $uri1; | |
# just to show it's actually working | |
print "No\n" if $uri1 ne "http://blah.com"; |
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