Re: RFC 32 (v1) A method of allowing foreign objects in

[John Porter]

> perl punts. We require that the code we interface to defines a
> dispatch function for each object, and we then just call the dispatch
> function with enough information for it to Do The Right Thing.
> 
> Perl will define some generic conversion
> routines (to int, float, and string) which the foreign code is welcome
> to override if it wishes.

I wonder if this idea was (or could yet be) informed by CORBA IDL,
or perhaps some other IDL, such as Xerox ILU?

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John Porter