Re: Perl* Abstraction

[Nick Glencross]

Luke Palmer wrote:

The way I see this being done is by adding another level of
indirection.  PerlScalar would implement its polymorphic behavior in
the set_* methods, and delegate everything else to its "contained"
pmc.
Having read up in the past on Perl5 internals, it seems to be capable of 
keeping more than one representation of a Scalar active at a time. For 
instance, if you assigned a number to a variable, treat it like a 
string, and then again as a number, it does a number->string conversion 
while still keeping the number around in case you are still going to use it.

Anyone know if there are plans to do this kind of optimisation? 
(assuming that it hasn't already!)

Regards,

Nick