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> Several people have requested strong typing as a feature, but have been shot > down with reasons such as "it's un-Perl-like", with an added "it'll slow > everything down for those who don't want it". Definitely. > Unfortunately, accessing and manipulating tied variables is incredibly slow, > so improving their speed is a large part of making this proposal feasible. I think a lot of effort should be put into improving tie(). There are tons of advantages to tie, and it could be used in incredibly flexible ways in Perl6 as I see it. While this is mainly an internals issue, I think it should be pretty high on the priority list. -NateThread Previous | Thread Next