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--- Michael Lazzaro <mlazzaro@cognitivity.com> wrote:
> By gum, it looks like we're all on the same page, or getting there.
> My only big question is what the names of the two things are -- the
> "root of all scalars" word, and the "junction of all builtin
> scalars" word. In other words, what's this shorthand for:
>
> my $x;
>
> does it mean
>
> my untyped $x;
> my scalar $x;
> my Scalar $x;
>
> What's that damn word?
Well Huffman says it can be as long a phrase as we like -- because
we'll never type it. I'm thinking something like:
{my $x}
eq:perl6
{my any(*@*primitive_types, Object) $a is scalar}
Its not un-typed: its any-typed.
Dave.
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