Re: Tying & Overloading

[Larry Wall]

John Porter writes:
: Larry Wall wrote:
: > I do expect that @() and $() will be used for interpolating list and
: > scalar expressions into strings, and it is probably the case the $()
: > would be a synonym for scalar().  @() would then be a synonym for
: > the mythical list() operator.  Which probably, in Perl 6, turns out
: > to be equivalent to [...] when used in a scalar context, and a no-op
: > in list context.  That is, $() and @() would essentially be typecasts.
: 
: Yay!  Then we're nine tenths of the way to highlander variables!

Except we're not having highlander variables.  $foo and @foo remain
distinct entities.

Larry