On Sunday, July 8, 2001, at 11:56  AM, Marcel Grunauer wrote:

> That can easily be done using tie() (assuming you talk about Perl) and

As I've just been made aware of, the original mail was sent to
ruby-talk as well (blame a Sunday morning hangover; I hadn't noticed).
So it's unlikely the OP was talking about Perl.

Sorry to bother ruby-talk. The comments might still be useful
for language-dev.

Sigh.

Marcel

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