Am I missing something here? I want to use dclone
to copy my object, and overloaded == and != to compare my object.
Here's my test code:
my $raw = Vhash->new(undefined=>0,
i=>$p_ids,
v=>[qw(so sd no nd)],
d=>[Date::range($startdate, $validdate)]);
my $xx = $raw->copy;
if ($xx == $raw) {print "hurrah\n";} else {print "nope\n";}
Why is my comparison failing here ("nope")?
Here's the relevant object code:
package Vhash;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp;
use Data::Dumper;
use Storable qw/freeze dclone/;
use overload '==' => \&overload_eq;
sub overload_eq { return freeze($_[0]) eq freeze($_[1]) }
use overload '!=' => \&overload_ne;
sub overload_ne { return freeze($_[0]) eq freeze($_[1]) }
my $joinchar = ",";
sub new {
my $proto = shift;
my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;
my $self = {};
bless ($self, $class);
$self->init(@_);
return $self;
}
sub copy {
my ($self) = @_;
my $new = dclone($self);
bless($new, ref($self));
return $new;
}
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