On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 12:21, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Larry's told me that as far as he's concerned the sigil is now part > of the variable name. So perl doesn't *have* a variable foo -- it has > $foo, @foo, %foo, and so on. (Granted, methods/subs are &foo, but for > that I'm OK slipping some chocolate to the perl 6 compiler guys and > getting them to quietly detect that and strip it out :)
Is it worthwhile assuming that many cross-language boundaries will share objects, meaning that opaque objects with accessor methods look fairly natural in the target language? I'm okay making that assumption as a rule of thumb. -- c
