The debugger and overloading

[Eric Roode <eric@verne.myxa.com>]

If anyone can shed some light on this, I'd be grateful. TIA.

I have a class, DBdate.  It overloads no operators.  I can go into the 
debugger, create a new object ("$a = new DBdate('2002-07-26')"), and
examine the object ("x $a").  Fine.

Now I edit the module file DBdate.pm.  I add the following lines, no
others:

use overload '>'   => '_gt',
             '>='  => '_ge',
             '<'   => '_lt',
             '<='  => '_le',
             '<=>' => '_cmp',
             '=='  => '_eq',
             '!='  => '_ne';

(Those subroutines already exist in the file).  Now I go into the
debugger, create a new object the same way, and try to examine it.
I get:

Operation `""': no method found, argument in overloaded package DBdate
at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/overload.pm line 92.

WTH?  I'm not attempting to overload '""'.  I can't believe that
overloaded objects can't be examined in the debugger...??

What am I missing?

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Eric J. Roode                                              eric@myxa.com
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