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From:
Tim Bunce
Date:
June 25, 2002 08:50
Subject:
Re: Perl5 humor
Message ID:
20020625164537.V87029@dansat.data-plan.com
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:35:20AM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:08:53AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:23:34AM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> > > Of course, another approach is to embed the existing Perl5 interpreter
> > > within the Perl 6 interpreter; Perl6 subs call glue which calls Perl subs
> > > which calls perl5 XS.
> >
> > How would you deal with passing references?
>
> (wild hand waving follows)
>
> a perl6 reference is substituted with a perl5 scalar that has attached
> magic that 'does the right thing'.
I don't think that'll fly.
Tim.
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