I was looking at the PDL/Basic/Core for how the magic
was used and discovered that we appear to have a PDL
magic implementation that is similar to perl's but specific
to PDL. Is this correct? I'm interested because the idea
of controlling a vtable is tied with ideas for PDL Next Gen.
--Chri
We do have a parallel implementation of something magic-like: hooks to kick off
a process on evaluation of a PDL. The "PDL magic" hooks, IIRC, are to kick off
lazy dataflow — e.g. “EquivCPOffsets” blocks in PP, or anything involving the
internal “trans" structure. I am pretty sure they’re not