Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Donal K. Fellows]

Paul Prescod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Will Perl 6 use a bit, a byte or an integer to represent boolean
> values? Will Perl programmers (not implementors) care? Probably only
> if the use "pack" (which of course has Unicode equivalents)!

Not even then.  The only time you should care about representation is
in packed strings, which can easily be said to be their own type.  The
rest of the time, you care about what the data is and not what it
looks like.  IYSWIM...

Donal.
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