Re: RFC 97 (v1) prototype-based method overloading

[email protected] ("David L. Nicol") Wed, 16 Aug 2000 12:24:21 -0500

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Graham Barr wrote:

> 
> I would add to that, that as long as the addition of this does not effect
> the performance of calling the methods that want the "relaxed perl5-ish"
> semantics.
> 
> Graham.

The IMPLEMENTATION of the rfc97 working document (unfortuneately
not web accessible, I may change that) now reads in part:

Perhaps the method is first looked up by name, and then further
dispatch is done if needed.  This would exempt methods using "relaxed
perl5-ish semantics" from any additional processing overhead.

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