Re^5: Reason for this discrepancy with scalar?

Thanks for the detailed and enlightening reply! :)

> should $i's initial value be regarded as a string or integer?

Ok I get your point.

I'd say regexes are string operations.

And parsing the capture group for occurrences of \d might be too complicated. Especially because (\d\.\d) is a float.

Anyway does Perl really set the IV slot in your example?

Cheers Rolf
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Re^6: Reason for this discrepancy with scalar? by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Mar 16, 2024 at 16:31 UTC
Anyway does Perl really set the IV slot in your example? No, perl regards it as a pure string at that point. It's just an example of what perl regards as an initial type and what we think of as a "useful" initial type not always coinciding. So I'm sceptical that putting in effort to make perl record the initial type is going to help serialisation as much as people expect. Dave.	[reply]
Re^7: Reason for this discrepancy with scalar? by LanX (Saint) on Mar 16, 2024 at 17:03 UTC
> So I'm sceptical that putting in effort to make perl record the initial type Well - as I just remembered - at least we don't need a new flag, but a type attribute. `my TYPE VARLIST` This obscure feature of `my` was already there since the very beginning of Perl 5 > is going to help serialisation as much as people expect. I think not only serialization could profit here. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l]
Re^8: Reason for this discrepancy with scalar? by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Mar 16, 2024 at 17:35 UTC
But lexical types largely don't do what people expect; in particular, they don't stop something which isn't an Int or whatever from being assigned to the lex var; nor do they coerce the assigned value to that type. In general, adding types to perl is a big topic which tends to trigger the occasional heated discussion on p5p and elsewhere. Dave.	[reply]
Re^9: Reason for this discrepancy with scalar? by LanX (Saint) on Mar 16, 2024 at 18:19 UTC