Re: A tentative list of vtable functions

[Larry Wall]

Dan Sugalski writes:
: Type returns a magic cookie value of some sort (Not sure what sort yet), 
: name returns a string with the name of the type of the variable.

Why can't the type object just stringify to the name of the type?

>From a language level, I'm inclined to say that any bare identifier
that is known to be a type name should be compiled to a type object
that stringifies to the name of its type.  Then class methods don't
have to do an extra symbol table lookup.

Larry