On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Melvin Smith wrote:
> >my Dog $spot = Dog.new("waggly tail");
> >$spot = Cat.new();
>
> In this case all types are known at compile time. Why would
> we relegate this to a runtime vtable check or bit flag?
There's no reason to suspect that Dog::new will actually return a Dog
object or that Cat::new won't, that's just not Perl. If we're to
check the type of the value being stored in $spot, we pretty much have
to do it at run time.
Alex Gough
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