Re^4: Perl 6: Static/Dynamic Strong/Weak Type Systems

in reply to Re^3: Perl 6: Static/Dynamic Strong/Weak Type Systems
in thread Perl 6: Static/Dynamic Strong/Weak Type Systems

Fair enough. For those who don't follow, the "hole" is that whenever an explicit glob is the RHS of an assignment, the member of the glob matching the LHS will be substituted. This is because a glob is both a type and a collection of types.

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Does it work?
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Re^5: Perl 6: Static/Dynamic Strong/Weak Type Systems by salva (Canon) on Apr 16, 2006 at 22:59 UTC
no, no, what I wanted to show is that when a glob ia assigned to a scalar, the scalar becomes a glob! After `$foo = *foo` [download] `$foo` is a glob!	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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