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

[Damian Conway]

   > Hmm, would it be too nasty for perl to recognize that all foo's have the
   > same prototype? (Consider the singular foo case.)

Probably. Remember that the programmer can always
C<eval "anything"> or C<do "anyfile"> and completely change
inheritance hierarchies.

Anyway, the overloading functionality you want will be available
via multimethods, when I get around to writing that RFC.

Damian