Re: Re: Thou Shall Not Covet thy Object's Internals

[turnstep]

Yes, in the same way that leaving through the nearest wall is "faster" than using the door. :)

[Lexicon]

Perl is like the Japanese Culture of languages. All the walls are built of paper, so you can peer in and get an idea of the shape of things.

Unfortuantly, paper tears easily.

And then you discover what you thought were the Emperor's concubines were actually a hoard of samurai. Oops.

-Lexicon

[merlyn]

Or coding in assembly is faster than using a high-level language.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker