At 03:27 PM 20/04/2001 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>At 02:13 PM 4/20/2001 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>> > o Comparison operations
>> > "<", "<=", ">", ">=", "==", "!=", "<=>",
>> > "lt", "le", "gt", "ge", "eq", "ne", "cmp",
>
>I'm thinking that we're going to have one cmp-style vtable comparison
>function for strings and one for numbers. Anything else and people can go
>override the parser if they really need to.
I'd rather be flexible on the low-level and have `default' or `catch-all'
functions that call the cmp-style function than have to `trick' the
language by modifying the parser to do what we want. But that's really not
my choice. I only think implementing backwards-compatible `use overload'
without these entries would be nasty...
I don't see much consistency problem on this level. This is supposed to be
the interface for working on Perl guts. Who is there is supposed to know
what she's doing...
- Branden
