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On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 02:56:13AM +0000, Oodler 577 via perl5-porters wrote:
> Does that help answer your initial questions?
'fraid not :-)
If I am understanding correctly, Perl::Types is intended to be something
which can be used stand-alone, independent of RPerl, and which you want to
be bundled with the perl core.
Within that context, how does adding 'use Perl::Types' at the top of a
perl (not RPerl) program do its thing? What mechanism are you using that
causes this line in a non-RPerl program to croak;
my number $x;
...
$x = 'foo'; # croak
e.g. is it a source filter, set magic attached to $x, or ...?
Also, from your reply about my mutator example not croaking by default,
this seems to imply that it's quite possible for $x to obtain a
non-numeric value under some circumstances. So, by default, what
circumstances will croak and which will silently allow $x to become
something other than a number? E.g. which of these lines croaks?
$x = 'foo';
$x =~ s/1/a/;
substr($x,0,1) = 'foo';
my $y = substr($x,0,1);
Just in general terms I'm still confused as to what effect adding
'Perl::Types' to my program will have, and how it achieves that effect.
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