Fair enough. On further reflection, this thread is suffering from a bad case of excluded-middle: The anti-autobox folks (myself among them) are trying to push you into defending the position that everything should be objects, when you've not stated that this should be the case.

I do see potential benefit to making at least some array/list/hash operations available as methods. I don't see it as a strong benefit in general, but reasonable people can differ on that. In the particular case of your javascript fruit basket, it reads more naturally to me in the standard Perl syntax than the js/autobox version, but that may just be a matter of acclimation; what would read most naturally to me would be "push 'kiwi', @fruits", to mirror English "push kiwi onto fruits", but I've not seen a language which allows that ordering.

In reply to Re^5: What are the drawbacks of autobox? by dsheroh
in thread What are the drawbacks of autobox? by LanX

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