On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:52:09AM +1100, Damian Conway wrote: > But I've repeated stated my strong belief that junctions are scalar values, > *not* lvalues. So the result of that assignment ought to be: > > Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment at demo.pl line 1
Yay for sanity. :) It's how pugs implement it, too.
> Brent's analysis is spot on, assuming that C<cmp> on junctions works as he
> envisaged. Personally, I think I'd implement C<cmp> as:
>
> multi sub infix:<cmp> (Any|Junction $lhs, Any|Junction $rhs) {
> return -1 if $lhs lt $rhs;
> return 1 if $lhs gt $rhs;
> return 0
> }
Hrm, so Junction.isa("Any") == False? I need to retype print(), say()
and other primitives, then.
Thanks,
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