We seem to have gotten away from the subject at hand (what jwz, who doesn't
like to use Perl, doesn't like about Java, and how those Java deficiencies
will make Perl more likeable to others who don't like to use Perl, either) to
peripheral, unimportant, non-topical things... like Perl 6 develop
We might want to have a member/method by which we can tell what type of
variable we're dealing with, so that a function can be passed an arbitrary
XV, and treat it differently if it's an SV, AV, and so on.
For SVs, we might want to have a method to determine what form of
representation the int
