At 8:48 AM -0600 9/3/02, Luke Palmer wrote:
> > Hmm... I think I'd rather see
>>
>> my $foo is Bag = @array.as('Bag');
>>
>> The idea being that one could treat hashes and arrays as syntactic
>> vitamins meaning 'Dictionary' (to use the Smalltalk term) and
>> 'OrderedCollection', but all Collections would implement an C<as>
>> method allowing conversion between the different classes.
>>
>> Hmm... you know, the more I think about that idea, the more I like
>> it...
>
>Likewise. I've always liked languages with complete standard libraries in
>terms of data structures. It would be great to see Perl be one of them.
PMCs can be loaded on demand. Make them good and there's no reason
they can't be in a standard SDK for parrot...
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