On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:11:39 -0600 (MDT), Luke Palmer wrote:
> > If the hyperness of a vmethod depends on the type of PMC it belongs to, we
> > need to force every operand to a specific type (scalar or list/array), even
> > if it looks like it's already the right type:
> >
> > $r = \@a; # Or is it just $r=@a ?
> > $r + 3;
>
> What the hell? I'm confused here. What are you trying to do?
>
> > We don't want to accidentally turn that into a hyperplus on @a's PMC, when
> > it should really be a plus on the scalar version of @a.
>
> Which is a reference. You're adding to a reference? You can't do that
> (or does it somehow scalarify to the length or something?).
I was thinking it would be the length. Apocalypse 2 doesn't mention this
explicitly, but mentions that +%hash will return the number of elements. It
should be safe to assume that +@array does the same.
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Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"If you are going to have delusions, you may as well have really good ones"
-- Marcus Cole, B5
