Hi,
At the moment, if you have some ParrotObject instance, say foo, and do
something like:
$S0 = foo
Then $S0 will contain the name of the class. This is BAD because it
means you can't overload what a class stringifies too! In fact, there is
a comment in the code saying that:
/*
=item C<STRING *name()>
Shortcut for .class().name()
XXX - this is bad and should go
=cut
*/
So, I want to get rid of this and allow this v-table method to just
dispatch to a user implementation or a fallback. But before I do that, I
wanted to check if anyone is relying on the behavior? I'd really rather
not break working code without giving folks a chance to fix it, but this
behavior needs to die. I'm amazed, nobody has killed it already.
I propose this is removed in a week, please respond if you'd have an
issue with that or think that's too short.
Thanks,
Jonathan
