[Templates] Re: odd interaction between DBM::Deep::Hash and TT

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel McBrearty <danielmcbrearty@gmail.com> writes:

Daniel> ok, solved it
Daniel> http://search.cpan.org/~merlyn/Template-Plugin-DBM-Deep-0.02/lib/Template/Plugin/DBM/Deep.pm

Daniel> "Caution: VMethods do not work against the hash-like or array-like
Daniel> objects. However, you can use the export method to get an unattached
Daniel> cloned copy of that portion of the database, and then the normal
Daniel> vmethods work:

Daniel>  "$key\n" FOR key IN db.export.keys;

Daniel> Failure to export first will result in attempting to access a hash
Daniel> element called keys, which doesn't exist."

Daniel> silly me .. :-)

Yeah.  When I wrote that, I contemplated suggesting that TT look first to see
if there's array-ish or hash-ish behavior before checking for being blessed,
but that'd break every other use of objects. :)

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