Re: RFC 73 (v1) All Perl core functions should return ob

[Nathan Torkington]

Dan Sugalski writes:
> Which sort of argues for localtime in a numeric scalar context to return 
> epoch seconds, in a string scalar context to return a time string, and in a 
> plain scalar context a hashref. (or mini-object, or tied thingamabob, or 
> whatever) Of course, we're trying to kill $! which does that, which is a 
> counter-argument...

I'm nervous about these different contexts.  I thought scalar vs list
was confusion enough.  Now we're talking about overloading even
further?  We need to think VERY long and VERY hard about this before
thinking it's a good thing.

Nat