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DOCUMENTATION!

After reading though the examples several times, I think I understand more or less what this does. I shouldn't have to do that.

I vaugely know what magic is, and what the ~ magic vtable is. I had to read over the samples three times before I understood what you're doing there.

It doesn't help that the ~ magic vtable has nothing to do with the "traditional" meaning of magic -- that is, it's never automaticly called.

I wonder how difficult it would be to allow you to set other types of magic to a perl sub, to be able to create partialy-tied things, and other wierd stuff.

Oh, and I think SvREFCNT can be gotten from several other places as well.

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In reply to Re: RFC Magic::Attach by theorbtwo
in thread RFC Magic::Attach by shotgunefx

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