Re: Strange bind_param issue

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 06:02:35PM +0100, Charles Jardine wrote:
> 
> $obj is not a string. It is an object of a class which has a
> stringify operator. "$obj" is a string, because "..." stringifies.
> 
> It is not at all clear how the DBI should take a copy of an object.

Without any method attributes in the bind_param call the driver is free
to 'do something reasonable' which typically means treat the value as a
string (or a number if it knows the field is numric).

> I think this is a case of user error.

It would be reasonable for a driver to complain if passed an object that
doesn't have string/numeric overloading, but this one does.

Tim.