On 2020-01-28 15:37, Trey Harris wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 18:09 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
<perl6-us...@perl.org <mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote:
Observer effect (physics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)
In physics, the observer effect is the theory that
the mere observation of a phenomenon inevitably
changes that phenomenon ... An especially unusual
version of the observer effect occurs in quantum
mechanics, as best demonstrated by the double-slit
experiment
Seems Quantum theory has come to Raku, only we call it "unboxing".
As I wrote in your Raku/problem-solving issue (#154), your question is
not well-formed. A native value has no metadata, so how can it have a
type? Any experience at all with a language with pointer arithmetic
should make this clear.
And you issue doesn’t seem to be with unboxing—as far as I can tell,
you’re unboxing (assigning to a native) just fine, it’s the autoboxing
that’s giving you fits.
If you can show a language that can do what you want—whether it’s a
`typeof` equivalent or a binary data validity checker or a magic number
heuristic or something else, then we may be able to help you, but right
now you seem to be asking for something akin to wanting to know what
color the bits in your uint32 are—it’s not a question with meaning.
Trey,
If I ask what something is, I want an accurate answer back.
-T
