That's not a slam on anything that uses overloaded values. There's just a problem with how overloading is done. I wrote about it here. There's just no correct way to compare overloaded values from different classes.
In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is. :-)
"What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?"