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Bart Lateur wrote:
>
> So what you're saying is that references aren't really scalars,
> but their own type. Thus they need their own prefix.
>
> But we've sort of run out of possible prefixes.
that is my interpretation of the p4->p5 decision to make references
fit within the scalar type; which itself echoes the nots&bolts
availability of memory addresses as integer types. Which cause[s|d]
so much confusion when porting 32-bit code to 64-bit architecture
If perl6 variable decorations switch from Part-Of-The-Name
to type casts, pretending that a reference is a string continues
to make the same amount of sense as pretending that a pointer to
a structure is an integer. It works, but it's troublesome.
--
David Nicol 816.235.1187 dnicol@cstp.umkc.edu
all your base are belong to us, Will Robinson
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