At 11:11 AM -0600 6/20/02, Luke Palmer wrote:
> > 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?).
References are close to invisible in perl 6, if I understand things
right, and in Parrot they're essentially transparent. Doing an
operation on a reference (other than getting or setting its referent)
is passed on to the referent.
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