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From:
John Porter
Date:
July 10, 2002 14:14
Subject:
Re: Mutable vs immutable strings
Message ID:
20020710211325.16474.qmail@web10801.mail.yahoo.com

Dan Sugalski wrote:
> John Porter wrote:
> > but what about non-PMC variables?
> 
> Generally speaking, there aren't any. Everything else (in this case 
> the buffer/string things) is for internal use only. Languages aren't 
> supposed to expose strings directly.

Languages are only supposed to expose PMCs?
Not ints, nums, strs?
Why have them if Perl can't see them?

-- 
John Douglas Porter


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