On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 03:13:22PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> 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 i
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
