On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Stephen R. van den Berg <s...@cuci.nl> wrote:
> - There obviously is no `= lfun. Is that technically challenging or
> hasn't there simply been no need to make it possible?
Don't like this idea! When you assign to a name, it should always
rebind. Imagine:
mixed foo = String.Buffer();
foo = "asdf";
Should that call foo->`=("asdf"), or reassign foo? IMO it should
absolutely always reassign. Otherwise you get something like PHP's
references - a pain to work with.
ChrisA
