Re: Overloading Weirdness

I tried separating your str package into its own module/file, and then useing it in the main script:

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1;
use lib qw(.);
use str;
...
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The output may be closer to what you were wanting (if I’ve understood correctly):

$VAR1 = {
          'BAD' => [
                     bless( [
                              bless( [
                                       'a ',
                                       bless( do{\(my $o = 'foo')}, 's
+tr' )
                                     ], 'str' ),
                              ' a'
                            ], 'str' ),
                     bless( [
                              bless( [
                                       $VAR1->{'BAD'}[0][0][1],
                                       ' '
                                     ], 'str' ),
                              bless( do{\(my $o = 'bar')}, 'str' )
                            ], 'str' ),
                     bless( [
                              bless( [
                                       bless( [
                                                bless( [
                                                         'a ',
                                                         $VAR1->{'BAD'
+}[0][0][1]

                                                       ], 'str' ),
                                                ' a '
                                              ], 'str' ),
                                       $VAR1->{'BAD'}[1][1]
                                     ], 'str' ),
                              ' a'
                            ], 'str' )
                   ],
          'GOOD' => [
                      bless( [
                               bless( [
                                        $VAR1->{'BAD'}[0][0][1],
                                        ' '
                                      ], 'str' ),
                               $VAR1->{'BAD'}[1][1]
                             ], 'str' ),
                      $VAR1->{'GOOD'}[0],
                      bless( [
                               $VAR1->{'BAD'}[0][0][1],
                               ' a'
                             ], 'str' )
                    ]
        };

$VAR1 = {
          'BAD_GOOD' => [
                          bless( [
                                   '',
                                   bless( [
                                            bless( [
                                                     'a ',
                                                     bless( do{\(my $o
+ = 'foo')}, 'str' )
                                                   ], 'str' ),
                                            ' a'
                                          ], 'str' )
                                 ], 'str' ),
                          bless( [
                                   '',
                                   bless( [
                                            bless( [
                                                     $VAR1->{'BAD_GOOD
+'}[0][1][0][1],
                                                     ' '
                                                   ], 'str' ),
                                            bless( do{\(my $o = 'bar')
+}, 'str' )

                                          ], 'str' )
                                 ], 'str' ),
                          bless( [
                                   '',
                                   bless( [
                                            bless( [
                                                     bless( [
                                                              bless( [
                                                                      
+ 'a ',
                                                                      
+ $VAR1->{'BAD_GOOD'}[0][1][0][1]
                                                                     ]
+, 'str' ),

                                                              ' a '
                                                            ], 'str' )
+,
                                                     $VAR1->{'BAD_GOOD
+'}[1][1][1]
                                                   ], 'str' ),
                                            ' a'
                                          ], 'str' )
                                 ], 'str' )
                        ]
        };


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I don’t pretend to know exactly what’s going on (I have the ’flu, my head is more than usually woolly), but perhaps this will help you towards a solution.

Cheers,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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