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On Mar 8, 2010, at 11:04 , Carl Mäsak wrote: > commitbot (>>>>), Brandon (>>>), Mark (>>), Carl (>): >>>>> + has $!age is ref; # BUILD will automatically use ref >>>>> binding, not copy >>>> >>>> Perl6 isn't done until it has reinvented Algol 68? >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> I'm not sure what exactly the repercussions of doing attribute >>> initialization with 'is ref' are apart from that. Brandon, if your >>> oblique reference to Algol 68 meant something more than what I >>> uncovered above, feel free to enrich the discussion by sharing what >>> you know about the possible consequences of spec'ing things this >>> way. >> >> I imagine Brandon was more referring to pass-by-reference, which was >> introduced into procedural HLLs by Algol-68. > > Oh! It was that simple. Right. And just a joke, not a complaint about the language. > Meanwhile, the uncanny similarities between Perl 6 and Algol 68 > continue to strike me: And *that* is why I'm cracking Algol 68 jokes here. :) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NHThread Previous | Thread Next