Re: Per-object inheritance in core a red herring?

[John Porter]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Any sufficiently encapsulated hack is no longer a hack."

Who said that?  I think it's wrong.

Any sufficiently encapsulated hack is no longer a *naked* hack.  So what.


> You shouldn't be relying on an object's reference.  ref $obj eq
> 'Some::Class' wrecks subclassing, 

ref($a) eq ref($b).


> What's the trade-off here?  It works, its efficient, the hacks are
> well encapsulated.

Having it in the core, in C[++], would be that much more efficient,
and that much less of a hack.  Maybe the tradeoff is that it
wouldn't work.  :-)

-- 
John Porter