David Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Personally I would not use such a beast > >But with different encodings implemented by different SV types - each with their >own vtable - surely most of this will "come out in the wash", by the correct >method automatically being called. I thought that was the big selling point >of vtables :-) > >(Or to put it another way - is the debate about handling multiple string >encodings really just the same debate as the handling of multiple numeric types >(but harder...) ?) It is exactly the same as the enormous_int ** complex_rational problem. if ("N{gamma}".title_case(join($klingon,@welsh)) =~ /$urdu/) who's operators get called ? -- Nick Ing-Simmons
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