In Python there are two string representations for objects: the
canonical representation repr() and the normal (human readable) string
representation str(). Would we want this dichotomy in perl 6 as well?
The main difference between the two is that strings returned from repr()
are directly evalable. e.g., the following would be equivalent:
$a = "foo\r\n";
print $a;
print _$a;
print eval(repr($a));
That's probably a poor example of its utility, but I'm not as well
versed in python to give repr() its due in a perl example.
So ... comments? Anyone out there know python well enough to say why
they have both repr() and str()?
-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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