Re: TIL redux (was Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?)

[Uri Guttman]

>>>>> "JP" == John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  JP> Uri Guttman wrote:
  >> if i want TIL and lose builtin overloading, that is
  >> a fine tradeoff to me. 

  JP> No, no, no!  That is one of the things that absolutely must be
  JP> fixed in the next major version of Perl!

i was referring to ziggy's idea of disabling the overload of builtins
ONLY if you request (via a pragma) advanced features like TIL. so if i
want the potential speedup of TIL, i can't overload builtins.

uri

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