NAME
    `stringification' - allow or forbid implicitly converting references
    into strings

SYNOPSIS
     no stringification;

     my $array = [ 1, 2, 3 ];

     print "My array is $array\n";  # dies

DESCRIPTION
    Normally in Perl, a reference may be implicitly converted into a string,
    usually of a form like `HASH(0x1234567)'.

    This module provides a lexically-scoped pragma which alters the
    behaviour of the following operations:

     "$ref"             # stringify
     $ref . "foo"       # concat
     lc $ref
     lcfirst $ref
     uc $ref
     ucfirst $ref
     quotemeta $ref

    When disabled by `no stringification', all of these operations will fail
    with an exception when invoked on a non-object reference.

     $ perl -E 'no stringification; my $arr = []; say "Array is $arr"'
     Attempted to concat a reference at -e line 1.

    The effects of this module are lexically scoped; to re-enable
    stringification of references during a lexical scope, `use
    stringification' again.

TODO
    *   More testing, especially around interoperatbility with other
        op-hooking modules.

    *   Hook more ops; including

         print $ref
         say $ref
         join "", $ref
         split //, $ref
         $ref =~ m//
         $ref =~ s///;
         s//$ref/;
         substr( $ref, 0, 0 )
         substr( $str, 0, 0, $ref )
         substr( $str, 0, 0 ) = $ref

    *   Consider whether to detect for objects that don't have overload
        magic, and forbid these too.

    *   A mode where string conversions just give warnings, rather than
        outright failures.

         no stringification 'warn';

AUTHOR
    Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>

