> > And how about:
> >
> > int length = 256 ;
> >
> > and, if that's legal, what does:
> >
> > print "I wonder what this is : " . length ;
> >
> > do?
> I imagine the first order of business for the C JIT team would be
> some conversion operators. Numeric types stringify into decimal
representation,
> no reason to throw that away.
Well, the question was more one of the interaction between C statements and
Perl functions.
int length = 256 ;
Isn't legal Perl. It's legal C. If it gets processed as C, though,
print "I wonder what this is : " . length ;
becomes ambiguous -- do we get the C variable, or the Perl function? (I
suspect that the only way for this to work out is to decide that perl
builtins are no longer legal C names.)
Likewise, if we do:
$mode = 0755 ;
$file = "Foobar" ;
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
chmod($mode, $file) ;
Which chmod gets called, perl or C? What are the rules for figuring this
out?
Dirk
