Magic

• "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
• In this case, "any sufficiently WHACKED OUT CRACK ADDLED FREAK TRAIN OF DESPAIR AND WEIRD SHIT ..."
• PVMG -- magical scalar!
• Space for a stash and extra stuff
• Linked list, each node has a type and a set of handlers
• Some types of magic are built-in (e.g., %ENV), others can be user-defined.
• Between about 5 people, magic is fully understood.
• (they're like pessimal perl6 vtables)
• Tied variables implemented with P magic