Re: Packed arrays and assignment vs binding

2010-11-14 Thread Jon Lang
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > On IRC, Jonathan said that 1 is basically an Int, which is something > like a boxed int. So whatever operation works removes the box, and puts > the result in the variable. > > However I wonder how well that's going to work, since Int can store

Re: Packed arrays and assignment vs binding

2010-11-14 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 11/14/2010 03:46 AM, Mason Kramer wrote: > I understand everything you've written except the following: > > On Nov 13, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > >> Hi, >> ... >> >> my Int @x; >> >> Where we get an array of scalar containers, each of which is only allowed to >> conta