Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere

[Dave Storrs]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:

> At 05:37 AM 9/27/00 +0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> >Perl should adopt scheme-like symbols, both at the language level
> >and at the internals level.
> 
> The explanation of this isn't that clear for me. (I have no scheme 
> experience at all)

        It isn't terribly clear to me either, but I think that what he's
saying is that you can qs() a method name, get a "thingie" out, store the
thingine in a scalar, and then that scalar becomes a direct portal to the
method...somewhat like a coderef, but without a required deref.

                        Dave