>>>>> "m" == moritz  <mor...@casella.faui2k3.org> writes:

  m> S02 says:

  m> "To get a Perlish representation of any object, use the .perl method. Like
  m> the Data::Dumper module in Perl 5, the .perl method will put quotes around
  m> strings, square brackets around list values,"

  m> So according to this, Rakudo has it right.
  m> But I think that a .perl()ification as ("blue", "light", "hayard",) would
  m> make much more sense, because simple thing like

  m> @a.push eval(@b.perl)

  m> would then DWIM.

for your def of DWIM. i can see wanting an anon array to be pushed onto
@a building up a structure. your example is too simple to really cover
this as you could just push @b or a ref to @b (damn, i need to learn
more basic p6 syntax! :).

a more useful example would be serializing data trees. if you dump @b
with .perl do you want the current dumper output of a anon array or your
list of values? when serializing a tree, you must get the ref version so
that is the common and default usage. your version isn't DWIMmy there at
all.

uri

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