On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 10:56 AM, Garrett Goebel wrote:
What about this?
\@array
hmm. As perl Apoc2, Lists, RFC 175... arrays and hashes return a
reference
to themselves in scalar context... I'm not sure what context '\' puts
them
in.
I'd guess \@array is a reference to an
[Recipients trimmed back to just p6-language; the Cc: list was getting
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On 2003-02-11 at 12:56:45, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> I'd just stick with Uri's explanation. Arrays are allocated. Lists are
> on the stack...
Nuh-uh. Those are implementation details, not part of the language
defin
From: Michael Lazzaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Just to clarify... in P6, is this an array reference, or a list
> reference?
>
> [1,2,3]
Exactly. It's still up in the air...
Apoc 2, RFC 175:
> So it works out that the explicit list composer:
>
>[1,2,3]
>
> is syntactic sugar f
Uri Guttman wrote:
>
> arrays are allocated and lists are on the stack. so arrays
> can have references to them but lists can't.
Apoc 2, RFC 175:
>
> scalar(list(1,2,3));
[...]
> scalar(array(1,2,3));
Which would imply one could take a reference to either.
> can anyone see any changes in p
