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2. Are you implicitly saying that the OO model of perl isn't clean ?? ;)
3. Done :)
4. Scott Walters suggested recently that making stashes tieable makes it possible to implement method overloading on method signature (for a particular class).
5. Ain't gonna happen. Patches not welcome, for once.
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I shan't volunteer for the re-entrant regex fix as my C-fu is weak and when we tell scary stories around the campfire, someone always brings up someone's journey into the regex engine's depths. I'd rather perform a colonoscopy on a flatulent pachyderm.
It's a shame, though. without reentrant regexes, the utility of (??{}) is severely limited. If it were fixed, we could open up an entirely new class of programming.
And I would never say that Perl's OO model isn't clean. Why, I just think it's oodles of
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You know, I wasn't even thinking about the Camel when I wrote that. It would have been much more funny if I had. Phooey.