Jonathan Lang wrote:
From S02:
--
Perl 6 includes a system of B to mark the fundamental
structural type of a variable:
$ scalar (object)
@ ordered array
% unordered hash (associative array)
& code/rule/token/regex
:: package/module/class/role/subset/enum/type/grammar
At 1:30 PM -0700 5/24/07, Larry Wall wrote:
Yes, provided we consider Junction and Any to both be subtypes of Object.
All this time, I was thinking that "Any" and "Object" were
synonymous, that Any is a symbolic|syntactic alias for Object, and
Any is not a subtype of Object.
Object is the m
Larry Wall wrote:
Well, it's already too easy, but the problem I have with it is not
that. My problem is that sigil:<@> is the name of a very specific
syntactic notion, while Positional is the name of a very generic
semantic notion. I don't think those levels should be confused.
Fair enough.
Whoops, quoted but forgot to answer first question...
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:33:23PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: Perl 6 includes a system of B to mark the fundamental
: structural type of a variable:
:
:$ scalar (object)
:@ ordered array
:% unordered hash (associative arra
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:33:23PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: >From S02:
:
: --
:
: Perl 6 includes a system of B to mark the fundamental
: structural type of a variable:
:
:$ scalar (object)
:@ ordered array
:% unordered hash (associative array)
:& code/rule/token/reg
