----- Original Message ----
> From: Moritz Lenz <mor...@faui2k3.org>
> > That is the preferred way to avoid action-at-a-distance in P6.
>
> so if I do that, will a 'my @a' use that new Array class?
>
> Actually I'd prefer it if there were some kind of mechanism to set a
> default implementation type, so that I could write something along these
> lines:
>
> class MyArray is Array { ... }
> use Container :Array;
>
> then is this lexical scope all Array declarations and all Prelude
> operations that return Arrays return one of the type that I specified.
Actually, I'd prefer to go much further than this:
use Core 'MyCore';
And have that override core classes lexically.
That solves the "but I want it MY way" issue that many Perl and Ruby
programmers have, but they don't shoot anyone else in the foot.
Cheers,
Ovid
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