| Subject: | Cannot handle references |
Hi,
I think I have found a bug in the Class::Loader 2.02 that it cannot handle references as argument to the constructor for the created class. I see that __prepare_args uses Dumper to dump the arguments and then the "filtered" arguments are given to the constructor method. If I understand correctly, this will create a new reference as well so that the reference no longer refers to the same data. In my case that it a Tk widget and Tk seems to be a little upset by that. Here are the relevant pieces of code:
56: my $topass = __prepare_args ($args);
57: $object = eval "$module->$constructor($topass)" or return;
82:sub __prepare_args {
83:
84: my $topass = Dumper shift;
...
There is probably a good reason for dumping the data, and I am not fluent enough in Perl to implement support for references. I can live with the limitation, but in that case perhaps the documentation could be updated?
Kind Regards,
Gunnar
Environment:
Using ActivePerl
perl: This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
Class-Loader-2.02
Windows XP Professional, Version 2002 SP1