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I wasn't saying anyone seriously used that for OO. (There are still uses for tying.) But it would have been nice to have one integrated mechanism, with class sy

by gpvos 3y ago

I wasn't saying anyone seriously used that for OO. (There are still uses for tying.) But it would have been nice to have one integrated mechanism, with class syntax for high-level use and bless for low-level access. And maybe with some magic in the high-level syntax that you couldn't access with bless, like actually making members unreachable, that'd be fine. I assume it has been looked into and found to be impossible, but I'd like to know why.

mst 3y ago
Roughly, because (a) performance (b) the intention to makie it still possible to poke into an object's guts but more obvious that's what you're doing (c) if you really want the class syntax atop a classic blessed reference, p3rl.org/Object::Pad will do that if you configure the :repr (that's basically the cpan testbed for a lot of the ideas that have gone into core and written by the same LeoNerd)