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Damian Conway skribis 2005-09-24 8:31 (+1000): > They ought to, since the two are different in Perl 5. > For example: > my @bar = 'bar'; > print "foo[@bar]baz\n"; > print "foo[" . @bar . "]baz\n"; This does not compare stringification to interpolation. It compares scalarification to interpolation. Interpolation (stringification) was needed because Perl 5's arrays weren't as smart as Perl 6's, and didn't usefully stringify in string scalar context. @foo Context Perl 5 Perl 6 numeric number number string number join scalar number ref This huge difference in how smart an array is makes it kind of useless to take Perl 5 as an example of how arrays should behave in Perl 6, because that would also dictate that "foo" ~ @bar end in the number of elements in @bar. Bad idea. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.htmlThread Previous | Thread Next