On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:24:54PM +0100, TSa wrote: > HaloO, > > Carl Mäsak wrote: >> Pugs and Elf currently numify a Pair object to 2, and Rakudo currently >> dies of despair. >> >> My guess is that the semantics of Pugs and Elf falls out naturally >> form a pair being treated as a list of two elements, or something. The >> question still deserves to be raised whether always-2 is a good >> semantics, or whether one would prefer some other default. > > My idea is to let a pair numify to whatever the value numifies to. > Same thing with stringification. In general I think that a pair should > hide its key as far as possible if used as non-pair.
This makes sense to me, but I'd like to see any use cases to the contrary, if anyone can think of one. Larry
