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Alex Gough
<alexander.gough@st-hughs.ox To: Melvin Smith/ATLANTA/Contr/IBM@IBMUS
ford.ac.uk> cc: perl6-internals@perl.org
Subject: Re: PMCs, setting, and suchlike things
02/14/2002 10:48 AM
>On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Melvin Smith wrote:
>
>> >my Dog $spot = Dog.new("waggly tail");
>> >$spot = Cat.new();
>>
>> In this case all types are known at compile time. Why would
>> we relegate this to a runtime vtable check or bit flag?
>
>There's no reason to suspect that Dog::new will actually return a Dog
>object or that Cat::new won't, that's just not Perl. If we're to
Gotcha, I was letting my C++ get in the way.
:)
-Melvin Smith
IBM :: Atlanta Innovation Center
melvins@us.ibm.com :: 770-835-6984
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