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Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> wrote: > >So in the following: > > > >my Complex $c = 3+4i; > >my $plain = 1.1; > >$plain = $c; > > > >I presume that $plain ends up as type Complex (with value 3+4i)? > > Yup. > > >If so, how does $plain know how to "morph itself into the RHS's type"? > > The general rule is: If a PMC is not a fixed type, it tosses its > contents and becomes whatever's assigned to it. If it is a fixed > type, it extracts what it can as best it can from the source and uses > that. Thanks. I just want to assert/clarify that the job of "becoming whatever's assigned to it" is delegated to the src PMC, since $plain won't itself know how to do this?Thread Previous | Thread Next