Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 03:24 AM, Damian Conway wrote:
>> Michael Lazzaro asked:
>>> class FileBasedHash is Hash { ...stuff... };
>>> my %data is FileBasedHash('/tmp/foo.txt');
>> Yes.
>
>>> my $path = '/tmp/foo.txt';
>>> my %data is FileBasedHash($path);
>> Indeed
>
> Great -- then I have only one more question, I think. In the words of
> a certain cartoon character, what's *this* button do?
>
> my $b is $a;
Compile time error. 'is' is a compile time property, scalar values
aren't.
