Re: functions that deal with hash should be more liberal

[Tom Christiansen]

>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?

It will show that you are doing what you *want* to do, not letting
automagic error-blind spoofery behind the curtains flummux up
your life unnecessarily.

--tom