Re: Ramblings on "base class" for SV etc.

[Bryan C . Warnock]

On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:

> I've been considering adding all the 'basic' operations (simple math,
> repetition, maybe comparisons) into the base vtable. That'd mean that,
> while the core perl might have *no* idea what to do with:
> 
>   @foo = @bar * 12;
> 
> the slots would be there in case the clever PDL folks want to define it.
> Or any clever folks, I suppose. I have no idea what multiplication in list
> (or would it be array? Probably actually array context, though we don't
> have that at the moment) context does, but someone else might.

That'd save me an RFC.  :-)  (The gist of about three dozen requests
from coworkers.)

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