At 11:29 PM 8/10/02 +0200, Arthur Bergman wrote: >>Hmmm... thinking some more about this. Why _is_ the FETCHed value of a >>tied variable saved locally? How would any internal (XS) module know >>whether it would be ok to use the saved value or to do a FETCH again? >> >>Would it not make even more sense to change this behaviour of tied variables? >Because that is how tied/magic works, the internals/XS doesn't know it is >tied, they use it as a ordinary variable, but before they use it perl >automatically gets get_magic on the value which can set the variable to >something.
I guess ours is not to reason why... ;-) >Changing this would be good, how it is to be done I don't know, my idea is >to use PMCs but maybe this is unfixable for perl. >OTOH, Nothing is impossible, it is SMOP. Simple Matter Of Perseverance? Liz
