On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:05:02 -0000, Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS @ Pike developers forum 10353@lyskom.lysator.liu.se wrote:
This is in most cases possible to implement with a wrapper object instead.
Is there a concrete reason (problem case) to have it in the language? You are saying "most" - what are the cases where using a wrapper object does not work?
Eg in the case at hand; a mapping that is modified directly by C-code, or if there's a preexisting mapping that needs to be monitored.
Bernd