|| confess "You may rebless only into a subclass of (". $old_metaclass->name ."), of which (". $self->name .") isn't.";
# rebless!
- $meta_instance->rebless_instance_structure($instance, $self);
+ # we use $_[1] here because of t/306_rebless_overload.t regressions on 5.8.8
+ $meta_instance->rebless_instance_structure($_[1], $self);
foreach my $attr ( $self->compute_all_applicable_attributes ) {
if ( $attr->has_value($instance) ) {