Re: RFC 161 (v2) OO Integration/Migration Path

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Nathan" == Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Nathan> Are you proposing making even "normal" scalar, hash, and array access
Nathan> go through these methods?  Wouldn't that slow everything way down?

That's my first gut reaction to this proposal.  "If you like Python,
you know where to find it, but let us have some primitive data types
in Perl that act primitive so we can optimize things."

Here's hoping I don't have to prove that, and Larry will just reject
this proposal outright. :)

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