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.IX Title "Tie::ToObject 3pm"
.TH Tie::ToObject 3pm "2018-02-10" "perl v5.26.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
Tie::ToObject \- Tie to an existing object.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\&        use Tie::ToObject;
\&
\&        my $stolen = tied(%something);
\&
\&        tie %something_else, \*(AqTie::ToObject\*(Aq, $stolen;
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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While \*(L"tie\*(R" in perldoc allows tying to an arbitrary object, the class in question
must support this in it's implementation of \f(CW\*(C`TIEHASH\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`TIEARRAY\*(C'\fR or
whatever.
.PP
This class provides a very tie constructor that simply returns the object it
was given as it's first argument.
.PP
This way side effects of calling \f(CW\*(C`$object\->TIEHASH\*(C'\fR are avoided.
.PP
This is used in Data::Visitor in order to tie a variable to an already
existing object. This is also useful for cloning, when you want to clone the
internal state object instead of going through the tie interface for that
variable.
.SH "VERSION CONTROL"
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This module is maintained using Darcs. You can get the latest version from
<http://nothingmuch.woobling.org/code>, and use \f(CW\*(C`darcs send\*(C'\fR to commit
changes.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
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\&        Copyright (c) 2008 Yuval Kogman. All rights reserved
\&        This program is free software; you can redistribute
\&        it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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