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Re: overloading = [a solution]

From:
simon
Date:
May 7, 2000 10:52
Subject:
Re: overloading = [a solution]
Message ID:
slrn8hbbak.91t.simon@justanother.perlhacker.org
Nick Ing-Simmons (lists.p5p):
>Sam Tregar <sam@tregar.com> writes:
>>What package supports people that don't want to know about the
>>package? 
>
>Tk for one. I suspect the vast majority of its users have no idea 
>what happens inside. 

*DB*_File, for another. You don't know what goes on in the package:
you utter a magic line, and suddenly your hash is connected to a
database. That's the whole *point* of tying.

-- 
I used to be disgusted, now I find I'm just amused.
		-- Elvis Costello

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