Re: Per-object inheritance in core a red herring?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 10:32 PM 6/28/2001 -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>The rule of thumb has always been if you can do it in a module, don't
>put it in the core.  Well, we can do it in a module.  Work on the
>module, don't complicate the core.

Doing it properly in a module is significantly more of a pain than doing it 
in the core. Faking it with a module means a fair amount of (reasonably 
slow) perl code, doing it in the core requires a few extra lines of C code 
in the method dispatch opcode function.

Besides, there are languages that do this on a per-object basis all the 
time anyway (aren't there? I think there are) in which case it makes sense 
to yank it into the core interpreter, as it'll be supporting more than just 
perl.

                                        Dan

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