On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 05:42, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Since any type potentially has assignment behaviour, it has to be a > constructor. For example, if you've got the Joe class set such that > assigning to it prints the contents to stderr, this: > > my Joe $foo; > $foo = 12; > > should print 12 to stderr. Can't do that if you've not put at least a > minimally constructed thing in the slot.
(hypothetical pre-breakfasty musings) Such as a PerlUndef with the 'expected_type' property set to 'Joe'? (and now for breaky) -- c
