It doesn't matter if it is a C pointer.
Unless you are working on Moarvm, you should consider them arbitrary unique
numbers. Like GUID.
That said, yes I'm sure that they represent a location in memory.
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 6:45 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <
perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In the following:
>
> Example 3:
>
> class PrintTest {
> has Str $.Msg;
>
> method PrintMsg() {
> print "self = <" ~ self.Msg ~ ">\n";
> print "self = <" ~ self.Str ~ ">\n";
> }
> }
>
> my $x = PrintTest.new(Msg => "abc");
>
> $x.PrintMsg
> self = <abc>
> self = <PrintTest<95224840>>
>
> is "95224840" a C pointer? What is that thing?
>
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>
