Simon Cozens writes:
: This also led me to think about what happens when we introduce new built-ins.
: Perl 5 has had a complete built-in freeze for a long long time now because
: you can't bring in a new built-in without risking smacking subroutines in
: old code.
Right, that's been an
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:10:52PM -0400, John Siracusa wrote:
This problem already exists to some degree in Perl 5. Stuff like isa() and
can() is already squatting in the lowercase user method namespace. But I
have a feeling that properties will multiply a lot faster than UNIVERSAL
