Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>I was talking about utf8 strings having a completely different vtable
>than a utf16 or a utf32 string. The statement in question seems to be
>incompatible with that, but I'm not here to argue about that.
>
>What I'd like to figure out about these vtables is how we do something
>as simple as string comparison if two strings have different vtables.
That isn't "simple" as perl5's utf8 has shown ;-) - but it _should_ be.
>Basically it's the old overloading dispatch problem all over again.
Someone (probably me) said that already - we haven't got any further
than the "Oh ... hmm" stage yet.
>It's not clear to me whether the intrinsic types should have a different
>solution to this than the extrinsic types.
_This_ thread is about using vtables for intrinsic types. If we cannot
make them work there then the proposed innermost SV * replacment is flawed.
>
>Doubtless there are already proposals out there that I just haven't
>read yet. I'm just letting you know where my thinking is at, even if I
>look ignorant of current discussions elsewhere. I only just got caught
>up reading the bootstrap mailing list this weekend. And I'm still 1300
>articles behind in perl6-language, sigh...
>
>Larry
--
Nick Ing-Simmons
