>For the first part, tchrist posted a nice list of non-overridable
>builtins; running my eye down it, it looks like the gross offenders
>here are:

>       glob, print, printf

>I don't know whether this is purely an implementation issue (and so
>lies solely in the domain of perl6-internals) or whether any
>programmer-visible changes may be necessary to allow this
>(justifying posting to perl6-language).

glob is most certainly overridable--now, at least.  Perhaps it
wasn't when I first made the list.

The things that take indirect objects are not--we've no context
coercion template for them.  Same with split and its regex arg.

--tom

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