> would need to know a fair bit about particular user-defined types that have
> been loaded in, on order to make clever interpretations of literals.

Precisely.  Assume I want

        $a = 2 + 3i;

to work...

-- 
$jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/
        # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
        # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen

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