Garrett Goebel wrote:
> Just does compile-time typing for $foo? Not inlining the constant?
You can't assume that the value associated with the symbol is
the same each time through the code, so how can it be inlined?
> I was thinking lowercase typed variables couldn't be rebound, because
> they w
From: Ken Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Here in the 10-step Perl 6 program we don't talk about
> resolution. We just learn to cope with change. ;)
;) I'm still working to grok the changes. I thought I was getting generally
clued in after reading the Apocalypses/Exegesises... but discussions
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:13:22PM -0500, Ken Fox wrote:
> On the other hand, people live with C's preprocessor
> and its #undef/#define of constants. If C programmers
> don't mind having different parts of a program compiled
> with different values for the same constant, then why
> should Perl pr
"Brent Dax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Garrett Goebel:
> # > my int ($pre, $in, $post) is constant = (0..2);
> #
> # Means that you are asking for compile time optimizations, and
> # agreeing not
> # to bless references to, or ascribe run-time properties to
> # those scalars. So
> # we've alre
