Darren Duncan (>): > Regarding Blob, that's not a collection type and its a fundamental type and > it still needs special syntax; I did suggest one in my previous message.
Frankly, I don't see why it should need special syntax. Blobs are, most of the time, not typed in through the keyboard (too much/too error-prone). They might be a "fundamental" type (whatever that means in Perl 6), but they have this feel of low-level, internal, close-to-the-metal bitwise stuff that the user would rather not have to handle directly, but abstract away in some library. In the rare cases in code where a blob is directly assigned to a variable from a literal value, that code might be auto-generated by some script that doesn't get confused by a deluge of digits. For this, a list of integer values and a cast or a conversion function (maybe &pack) will do as syntax, in my opinion. // Carl
