On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 05:35:39PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew O Persico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Matthew> Um, that's very cute, but it seems very "internal" to > Matthew> me. What are the odds that this is going to work in Perl 6? > Matthew> I'm not so sure I'd depend upon it. > > If bitops still distinguish only-strings from > strings-at-least-once-used-as-numbers, then it'll have to continue to > work. > > However, if Perl6 breaks bitops into "bitop as string" and "bitop as > numeric", then it won't work. There's no point in talking about that > until Perl6 is out. :)
And when it is I suspect this'll be the least of the issues we'll have to deal with. It's certainly more likely to work in Perl6 than trying to load B::* modules :) Tim.
