[CVS ci] IO stuff

2004-05-19 Thread Leopold Toetsch
I've put in some changes to io: - interface to query existing layers - move various things around Not much yet. But: IO does currently translates to/from utf8 by default, so we need some tweaking here: Proposal: - create a new string layer that does this {en,de}coding - change the prototyp

Tying & Overloading

2001-04-20 Thread branden-perl6
s are INC and DEC, that return a new value (that would be the incremented/decremented value of the current object). This is necessary to support immutable values, that cannot be incremented without creating a new value. REPRS returns a bitmap indicating which of the representations (string, number, scalar