> So then the question is: what more information is required?

A goal or at least a motivation.

This snippet looks like a meta-definition for a data type "Scalar" and how native types are casted.

I have no idea what you intend to do with this information in Perl.

init and this are keywords of an OO language, but with which concrete semantic?

This seems like an attempt to derive the language of the Bible from two phrases in a antique graffiti in a temple. If this is all you got, better parse it manually with your bio-computer.

I'm sure someone is playing a joke on you/us ¹, like when you confronted us with this fake math-paper.

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

¹) maybe a splitted personality?

In reply to Re^6: How would you parse this? by LanX
in thread How would you parse this? by BrowserUk

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