Re: Re: Exegesis 6 - Named binding

This actually brings up another question - Will there be an equality operator that distinguishes between value equality and binding equality? For example, I want to know if $who is bound to $because vs. $who being == or eq to $because ...

------
We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.

The idea is a little like C++ templates, except not quite so brain-meltingly complicated. -- TheDamian, Exegesis 6

Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.

Comment on Re: Re: Exegesis 6 - Named binding

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Re: Re: Exegesis 6 - Named binding by Elian (Parson) on Jul 31, 2003 at 17:00 UTC
Last I knew the decision was that testing for identity wasn't going to be common enough to warrant an operator. I think instead there'll be some UNIVERSAL method that returns a unique widget that you can use to test--.is or .ref, or something along those lines.	[reply]
Re4: Exegesis 6 - Named binding by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jul 31, 2003 at 17:17 UTC
Of course, given that we'll have macros, we should be able to code up an operator that will test for this, right? ------ We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age. The idea is a little like C++ templates, except not quite so brain-meltingly complicated. -- TheDamian, Exegesis 6 Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.	[reply]
Re: Re4: Exegesis 6 - Named binding by Elian (Parson) on Jul 31, 2003 at 17:37 UTC
If you wanted to, sure.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Exegesis 6 - Named binding by Cine (Friar) on Jul 31, 2003 at 23:46 UTC
Last I heard, that function was going to be called .id, but that may have changed a billion times ;) T I M T O W T D I	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Exegesis 6 - Named binding (isAlias?) by tye (Sage) on Jul 31, 2003 at 17:34 UTC
In Perl 5 you can already use `\$x == \$y` to test whether $x and $y are aliases of each other. I would think such would also work in Perl 6 but I don't follow Perl 6 deeply so I could certainly be wrong. - tye	[reply] [d/l]