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

Re: RFC 159 (v1) True Polymorphic Objects

2000-08-25 Thread Nathan Wiger
Oh geez! I'm sorry, I forgot to mention David Nicol in the REFERENCES, who also gave great input, especially on the BOOLEAN accessor. Thanks David! I swear I'll put you in v2. :-{ -Nate Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/