On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 01:51, Larry Wall wrote:

> Note these just warp the defaults.  Underneath is still a strongly
> typed string system.  So you can say "use bytes" and know that the
> strings that *you* create are byte strings.  However, if you get in a
> string from another module, you can't necessarily process it as bytes.

But, what happens if I:

        {
                use bytes;
                my string $line = $filehandlelikething.getline;
        }

Does my saying "string" enforce anything, or do I have to:

        {
                use bytes;
                my string $line is bytes = $filehandlelikething.getline;
        }

?

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Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Senior Systems Engineer and Toolsmith
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