Re: String representation

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

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 ? 


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Nick Ing-Simmons