Imrpoving tie() (Re: RFC 15 (v1) Stronger typing through tie.)

[Nathan Wiger]

> Several people have requested strong typing as a feature, but have been shot
> down with reasons such as "it's un-Perl-like", with an added "it'll slow
> everything down for those who don't want it".

Definitely.

> Unfortunately, accessing and manipulating tied variables is incredibly slow,
> so improving their speed is a large part of making this proposal feasible.

I think a lot of effort should be put into improving tie(). There are
tons of advantages to tie, and it could be used in incredibly flexible
ways in Perl6 as I see it. While this is mainly an internals issue, I
think it should be pretty high on the priority list.

-Nate