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From:
John Porter
Date:
June 29, 2001 15:36
Subject:
Re: Per-object inheritance in core a red herring?
Message ID:
20010629183631.A28654@min.net
schwern@pobox.com wrote:
> "Any sufficiently encapsulated hack is no longer a hack."

Who said that?  I think it's wrong.

Any sufficiently encapsulated hack is no longer a *naked* hack.  So what.


> You shouldn't be relying on an object's reference.  ref $obj eq
> 'Some::Class' wrecks subclassing, 

ref($a) eq ref($b).


> What's the trade-off here?  It works, its efficient, the hacks are
> well encapsulated.

Having it in the core, in C[++], would be that much more efficient,
and that much less of a hack.  Maybe the tradeoff is that it
wouldn't work.  :-)

-- 
John Porter
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