On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:47:35AM -0700, Austin Hastings wrote:
>
> Although it occurs to me that there might be such a thing as "Int
> properties" and "Str properties", and maybe the conversion propagates
> the appropriate ones.
>
> That is:
>
> my $a = "foo" but $purple ;
> $a but= false;
> $a but= prime;
> $a but= charset("UTF8");
> $a but= encoding("text/utf8");
>
> my Int $b = $a;
>
> At this point, $b would be C<0 but all(false, prime)>.
>
> =Austin
Yeek. That gives me the screaming willies. Let's either have it
preserve all the properties or none, but please don't make me remember
a big list of which properties exist for which types...and oh, btw,
did I happen to overload/modify that? Did any of the modules I'm
using? Where do user defined properties (if those still exist) fit
in?
--Dks
