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
- RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere Perl6 RFC Librarian
- Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere Dan Sugalski
- Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere Dave Storrs
- Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywh... Ken Fox
- Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols eve... Simon Cozens
- Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere Paolo Molaro
- Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywh... Dan Sugalski
- Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols eve... Chaim Frenkel
- Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbol... Dan Sugalski
- Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, sy... Chaim Frenkel
- RE: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere Fisher Mark