Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

[Dan Sugalski]

At 08:54 PM 4/5/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:50:04PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > (We could even make
> > perl 5 completely OO if you wanted to write some code for the
> > SCALAR/HASH/ARRAY packages. Presumably in C, if you wanted to do:
> >
> >    $foo = "12";
> >    print $foo->POK;
> >
> > to retrieve the POK flag, say.)
>
>Guh. People should stop giving me wacky B:: module ideas.

Ah, you're no fun. :)

Seriously, we could easily weld in all the OO stuff folks want now into 
perl 5. The only two issues are memory bloat and startup time--the rest is 
all magic autoloading. (Well, OK, given Errno maybe we still need to work 
on that a little, but...)

                                        Dan

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