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Dan Sugalski wrote: > What I'm in favor of is getting overloading and tying working together. > I still think the two should remain separate, with assignment living in > the tie part. I don't have the tuits to throw at it, unfortunately. I'm not sure how that would work. Would you tie the blessed object or bless the tie? The OO interface (overloading) has to be dominant, so that the correct method gets called with the correct object[s]. FETCH could naturally be mapped to numify()/stringify() based on context, I suppose, but the overloading already does that now. STORE is the only piece missing from the possible overload methods. Would you be more favorably inclined towards an overload::Tied module which added a Tie-like interface to overloaded objects? John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748Thread Previous | Thread Next