Re: RFC 168 & 267 regarding builtins...

2000-09-21 Thread John Porter
Webmaster wrote: > Both RFC 168 & 267 complain about the inability to override builtins. What > if p6 simply require all user defined functions to be called using the &func > syntax, and that builtins require the bareword syntax? Uh, how does that result in overridability? Sounds to me more lik

Re: RFC 168 & 267 regarding builtins...

2000-09-21 Thread Webmaster
Both RFC 168 & 267 complain about the inability to override builtins. What if p6 simply require all user defined functions to be called using the &func syntax, and that builtins require the bareword syntax? This way any builtin could be overridden and it would be immediately recognizable as an ove