Re^5: Why Perl in 2020

Are you sure this isn't just an example of autoboxing of primitives like in JavaScript without explicit String class as wrapper for primitive string type ...etc? °

Perl can/could do the same see autobox

Cheers Rolf
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°) see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Primitive

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Re^6: Why Perl in 2020 by Arunbear (Prior) on Jan 07, 2021 at 16:51 UTC
I'm not convinced Python actually has primitives in that sense - at least I'm not aware of any way of distinguishing objects from non-objects (the type function always returns some class or other, unlike it's JS counterpart typeof).	[reply]
Re^7: Why Perl in 2020 by LanX (Saint) on Jan 07, 2021 at 17:17 UTC
They could fake it by implicitly bending the method-call operator `.` much the same way `autobox` does it with `->` In the end it's only a question of improving performance. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]