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Re: [PATCH] Update Automake::Variable::variables to agree with its docum


From: Raja R Harinath
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update Automake::Variable::variables to agree with its documentation
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 18:06:29 -0500
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Hi,

Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:30:52PM -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote:
[snip]
>> -  foreach my $var (sort variables)
>> +  foreach my $var (sort { $a->name cmp $b->name } variables)
>
> Do you know if Perl allows one to setup default comparison function
> for a class (I'm thinking about an equivalent of Python's __cmp__
> method)?

There's the 'overload' pragma.  I think it can be used like:

   use overload 'cmp' => \&variable_cmp;

I haven't tried if it works.

- Hari
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Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ address@hidden




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