On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:19:48AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:04:10PM -0000, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > : Looking at what Chip said though, it would appear that the much cleaner > : solution I was hoping to find exists and can be found in lex pad stuff, > : which I need to go stare at for a bit before replying. :-) > > This is tangentially related, but we might need to think about > something like typed references in any event to enable various forms > of round-trip language interoperability. That is, we could have > references that are polymorphic depending on language context, > so that different behaviors can be emulated depending on which > facilities are native to the language and which are "borrowed" from > some other language. Think of something which is simultaneously a > P5 and a P6 object.
An interesting idea. Should be easy enough to do with existing facilities, switching behavior at runtime based on <pseudop6> CALLER.sub.hll </pseudop6>. -- Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
