On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:07:36PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> > I disagree. If there was a bsdm.pm or -B option that gave strong type
> > checking, then many would be happy.
>
> You can do this with attributes and tying.
Doesn't tying slow things down? If you did compile time type
checking, this would take no perfromance hit. Also you could, say,
add some opcodes for doing runtime checking, so that runtime
checking would be faster than doing it with tying, but wouldn't bog
SVs down with having to carry around too much more extra info.
(At least, this is the impression I get from my limmited knowledge
of Perl internals).
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