Re: RFC 35 / Re: perl6-internals-gc sublist

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

Chaim Frenkel wrote:

> The string/number duality should be handled by the vtbl. So a string that
> is never accessed as a number, doesn't waste the space. And numbers that
> are rarely accessed as a string save some room. And as needed the vtbl can
> be promoted to a duality version that maintains both.

I agree with that.  I believe we sould push as much as we can into the
vtbl.  This will make reimplmentation of Perl guts in say, Java, much
easier.  :)

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