Re: no overloaded magic??

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Quoting Perrin Harkins <perrin@xxxx.xxx>:

> On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 16:47, Michael Jensen wrote:
> > % if ($user->group_id < 4) {
> > some stuff here...
> > % }
> >
> >
> >
> > I have never heard of overloading before so I am not sure what isgoing
> > on. See error:
> >
> >
> > Operation `<': no method found,
> > left argument in overloaded package Table::Groups,
> > right argument has no overloaded magic
> > at/home/webtree/home/www.acutext.com/html/o/siteMenu.mas line 45.
>
> Looks like $user->group_id actually returns an object, not a simple
> scalar.  Maybe you meant $user->group_id()->id() ?
>
> - Perrin
>
>

I had frequently run into this problem with fields that are in a has_a
relationship.  If you print them, it stringify's the field, but if you do
comparisons, it will barf.  Perrin's suggestion should do the trick.

-jason scott gessner
    jason@xxxxxxxx.xxx



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