Re^3: Ter::ANSIColor is awesome, but.. (need help)

[mascip]

The starting point of my reasoning is:

There is only one place where I declare the variables that I want to colorize. If I could colorize them then and nowhere else, that would be much simpler.

[Corion]

You will need to split up the two uses of $name, for internal program logic and for display.

[mascip]

But this means passing around both variables everywhere, which is a pain.

Oh! I just realized, I could I not notice? eq() is an operator, I can overload it! Time to Git clone and see if that works...

[mascip]

I cannot overload eq() because Term::ANSIColor doesn't return an object. Ouch. Are there any alternative implementations out there that return an object?

It could look like this:

my $name = String::Colored->new('Jon', 'red'); # improvised module nam
+e

# Overloads stringification
print $name;

# Overloads string comparison operators
my $res = $name eq 'Jon';

$name->stripcolor;