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
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
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
> contain an Int (strictly, something that Int.ACCEPTS(...) hands
Jonathan Worthington wrote:
> In the latter case, it's fairly clear how these differ:
>
> @x[0] = 1;
> @x[0] := 1;
>
> In the first, we look up the container in slot 0 or the array and assign a 1
> into it. In the second, we bind a 1 directly into the slot. There's no
> container any more (so any f
On 11/13/2010 06:09 PM, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
> With packed arrays, however, I'm less clear what they mean. Since the
> point of a packed array is compact storage, there's no chance to
> actually have containers. Thus does assignment to a slot in a compact
> array ever make sense? There's
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 06:09:00PM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
...
> With packed arrays, however, I'm less clear what they mean. Since
> the point of a packed array is compact storage, there's no chance to
> actually have containers. Thus does assignment to a slot in a
> compact array ever m
Jonathan (>):
> Per S09, we can write in Perl 6:
>
> my int @x;
>
> And the idea is that we get a packed array - conceptually, a single lump of
> memory allocated and and storing a bunch of ints contiguously. Contrast this
> to:
>
> my Int @x;
>
> Where we get an array of scalar containers, each of
