On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 18:53, Luke Palmer wrote:
> Aaron Sherman writes:
> > or did Larry mention a way to define a converter and I missed it?
>
> Yep, that's what happened. See Apocalypse 12 under "Overloading."
Ok, so in the case of:
my int $i = ...;
we should apply C<convert:as(..., ::int)> and fail at run-time,
correct? There's nothing wrong with TRYING to do the conversion, just as
there should not be anything wrong with:
my int $i = "4";
which has some pretty simple semantics in Perl.
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Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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