According to Ken Fox:
Chip Salzenberg writes:
According to Ken Fox:
Overlapping metadata is a problem though.
Not in this area, AFAIK.
Calling meta($s, 'foot') will return foot ABC. How should foot DEF
be fetched? It applies to the same offset. I think meta() should
always return a metadata stream (collection maybe?).
Oh, I see -- overlapping metadata conflicts with having meta() return
a scalar. Yes, that's true.
(I'm assuming that Topaz will have more built-in data types than
Perl 5.)
Well, it _can_. But I'm hoping that many things that might seem like
new types could instead become new implementations of existing types.
That said, iterators seem like a good candidate for a real new type.
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