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Ricardo Signes
Date:
August 22, 2012 17:29
Subject:
Re: Re: fixing smartmatch just hard enough (and when, too)
Message ID:
20120823002915.GA20066@cancer.codesimply.com
* Damian Conway <damian@conway.org> [2012-08-22T19:55:41]
> Hmmmm. In light of my arguments in defending bidrirctional overloading,
> and of chromatic's observation regarding the relative ease of various types
> of inversion-of-control on error reporting, I'm now convinced the
> proposal should be:
>
> [ most of table elided ]
>     Any      Any                   undef (with fatalizable warning)

I agree, including with the spirit of this one quoted line, although it
should be "false" and not "undef." :-)

I've been checking my mail while away from home, and making notes on the
various things that had come up, and this proposal covers all the same things
I'd wanted to say, so I am very happy that I can just say, "yes, this."

-- 
rjbs

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