On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 02:00:13PM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:
> Tieing a hash would be the same as sub-classing it
Sub-classing a container is exactly what tying is all about.
That, and not losing the original non-tied storage inbetween ties.
> Or is this merely a mechanism for the above?
You can
Autrijus Tang wrote:
Containers come in two flavours: Non-tieable and Tieable. Both are typed,
mutable references. There is no way in runtime to change the flavour.
data Container s a
= NCon (STRef s (NBox a))
| TCon (STRef s (TBox a))
A Non-tieable container is comprised of