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On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans < leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > It gives non-core CPAN module code the ability to mutate and change the > inner workings of perl core. > > Isn't that what a lot of the more interesting hooks and features are > for? I occasionally find myself wanting some hook or ability and get a > little annoyed that there isn't one; but that's usually just down to > insufficient foresight for someone to have added it, or considerations > of the performance impact it would have (e.g. my desire to hook > SvREFCNT_dec). Intentionally removing a hook that has been demonstrated > to have use-cases seems a whole different thing. For scalar magic, there is an easy enough alternative: you create a new magic vtable, and redirect the vtable field to that. It's easy enough, and scoped much more narrow than the global table. For hashes and arrays, this turns out to be more complicated, mainly because the magic of hashes and arrays is kind of bizarre. You first need to modify the hash/array's magic, so it will cast your alternative magic on its elements at the appropriate time so it does what you want it to do. Leon