Re: explicit boolean accessor

[Nathan Torkington]

Nathan Wiger writes:
> > This works in Perl5.
> 
> Right, a lot of this stuff (like STRING and BOOLEAN) can be accomplished
> through overloading. However, having a standard builtin method similar
> to tie and import makes things easier and more consistent I think. If we
> make "everything an object" then these become necessities.

So what you want is for overloading to become easier, probably via
predefined methods?  Excellent topic for an RFC.

Nat