Re: RFC 161 (v4) Everything in Perl becomes an object.

2000-09-27 Thread Bennett Todd
2000-09-27-05:28:01 Piers Cawley: Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:25:28AM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: At the suggestion of others I've opted to freeze rather than withdraw. How might I persuade you to reconsider? I was kind of hoping that

Re: RFC 161 (v4) Everything in Perl becomes an object.

2000-09-27 Thread Bennett Todd
2000-09-27-15:08:10 Simon Cozens: Never too late to withdraw, sir. [1] The less crap we make Larry wade through, the better. Regarding the specific issue at hand, could you please offer something more specific than "you'd like it withdrawn"? Is there a reason why it's impossible to implement

Re: RFC 159 (v1) True Polymorphic Objects

2000-09-06 Thread Bennett Todd
2000-08-28-18:47:06 Tom Christiansen: It strikes me as a bit reminiscent of (one reason) why Larry didn't make a+b work on strings, since then while with numbers, a+b and b+a would be the same, with strings they would not be, and we have these rather deeply held convictions about such