Re: .perl and other methods on Junctions?

2008-11-08 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:28:00AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > But it seems to me that if stringification of a junction returns a > correct .perlish syntax, it's probably better to just let that happen > lazily, on the assumption someone might want .perl to autothread for > some reason, perhaps beca

Re: .perl and other methods on Junctions?

2008-11-05 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 01:33:09PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: : Consider the code: : : my $x = 3 | 'foo'; : my $y = $x.perl; : : : Does $y end up as a junction of strings or as a single string? I think it may not actually matter much, if subsequent stringification of the junction

.perl and other methods on Junctions?

2008-11-04 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
Consider the code: my $x = 3 | 'foo'; my $y = $x.perl; Does $y end up as a junction of strings or as a single string? Asking more directly, does .perl autothread over a Junction? If .perl does not autothread, then is there some way of knowing which methods autothread and which do not?