Eric wrote:
Since you wouldn't expect an object to stringify or numify...
You wouldn't??! I certainly would.
Object references already stringify/numerify/boolify in Perl 5. Unfortunately,
they do so with problematic default behaviours, which is why C<use overload>
allows you to overload q{""}, q{0+} and q{bool} (a practice I strongly
recommend in "Perl Best Practices").
Finding useful and predictable defaults for the basic coercions on all
built-in types is a vital part of the design of Perl 6.
Damian
