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

[Dan Sugalski]

At 03:38 PM 8/10/00 +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
>    > >    > An object that has many different -ify methods:
>    > >    >   stringify
>    > >    >   numify
>    > >    >   hashify
>    > >    >   listify
>    > >    >   objectify (!)
>    > >
>    > > Possible, but blech.
>    >
>    > Why is that more blech?
>
>Because it's "heavy".
>
>However, if Dan assures me that objects will have lower overheads
>in Perl 6, I will happily withdraw my "blech".

Objects will have lower overhead in perl 6. This sort of thing doesn't have 
to be an object, either--it should be reasonably trivial to do with the 
perl 6 equivalent of magic, which should be even cheaper.


                                        Dan

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