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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:15:48 EDT
From: Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit>
>So, you're saying to dispense with prototypes, even in the core, and leave
>us with the slowest language known to man?
No and no.
If you have internal prototypes, why can't it attempt a type conversion
IFF you didn't satisfy the prototype. It's like doing math with strings,
it checks to see if it really can use it as a number first... Why is this
so hard?
So the internals stay almost the same, but before resorting to die,
you attempt a cast, if it works you warn that's inefficient under strict,
and of course in the docs. If I occasionally want to be inefficient, I should
have the license to do so. But I really don't think it'll be that less
efficient, considering the alternative is to do the casting myself, which will
almost certainly use more memory, and run slower than anything in the core.
No?
>I don't see that flying.
All it requires is forgetting to hit the ground.
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