Re: RFC 218 (v1) C<my Dog $spot> is just an assertion

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:48:27AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Michael G Schwern <[email protected]> writes:
> > Nope.  fields::new() basically just does C<bless
> > [\%{"$class\::FIELDS"}], $class>, but the current pseudohash
> > implementation doesn't care if something is an object or not.  It just
> > cares about either A) its type or B) what's in $ph->[0].
> 
> Hmm... it still feels like undocumented behaviour. I'd definitely be
> inclined to tighten up the base/fields behaviour. My feeling is that
> the proposal makes them closer to the Right Thing.

Its plenty documented.  But if we simply put a bullet into
pseudo-hashes, as per RFC 241, this all goes away.

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Michael G Schwern      http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/      [email protected]
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