On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 09:18:19AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: .PKG -> .WHAT
I should have said
.ref -> .WHAT
there, since it was the intention to rename .ref that brought all this
on in the first place. (And what you actually get from .WHAT is the
prototype object that stringifies to the package name.) In any case,
.ref is bogus in a language that "doesn't have references". Its use
as "typeof" in Perl 5 was something of an accident. And its boolean
use is bogus whether you view Perl 6 as mandating all references or
no references. Or however you say that in English...
Larry
