Re: A tentative list of vtable functions

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

> would need to know a fair bit about particular user-defined types that have
> been loaded in, on order to make clever interpretations of literals.

Precisely.  Assume I want

        $a = 2 + 3i;

to work...

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        # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen