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ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Date:
January 29, 2020 00:06
Subject:
Re: stolen uint's
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d9bfaed5-46ef-3ec0-3a00-5778a0155e0c@zoho.com
On 2020-01-28 15:37, Trey Harris wrote:
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>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 18:09 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
> <perl6-users@perl.org <mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote:
>
> Observer effect (physics)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)
>
> In physics, the observer effect is the theory that
> the mere observation of a phenomenon inevitably
> changes that phenomenon ... An especially unusual
> version of the observer effect occurs in quantum
> mechanics, as best demonstrated by the double-slit
> experiment
>
> Seems Quantum theory has come to Raku, only we call it "unboxing".
>
>
> As I wrote in your Raku/problem-solving issue (#154), your question is
> not well-formed. A native value has no metadata, so how can it have a
> type? Any experience at all with a language with pointer arithmetic
> should make this clear.
>
> And you issue doesn’t seem to be with unboxing—as far as I can tell,
> you’re unboxing (assigning to a native) just fine, it’s the autoboxing
> that’s giving you fits.
>
> If you can show a language that can do what you want—whether it’s a
> `typeof` equivalent or a binary data validity checker or a magic number
> heuristic or something else, then we may be able to help you, but right
> now you seem to be asking for something akin to wanting to know what
> color the bits in your uint32 are—it’s not a question with meaning.
Trey,
If I ask what something is, I want an accurate answer back.
-T
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