At 11:39 PM +0000 2/12/02, Simon Cozens wrote:
>Dan Sugalski:
>>  So, what about the ramifications of:
>
>No. You've glossed over the details of how we know that
>
>this assignment is integer, and
>
>this assignment is string,
>
>and this assignment is integer.
>
>Parrot can't know this, surely.

Absolutely. That's what the language parser is for. Parrot doesn't, 
and *shouldn't* know what's supposed to happen.

The interpreter can't do everything intuitively, after all...
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                                         Dan

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