On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 11:13, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [I'm assuming that these internal signatures contain actual type > > No. They are really internal, denoting C data types: 'i' => int, 'd' => > double and so on. These signature just happen to live in STRINGs so that > we can pass them around e.g. to VTABLEs.
I don't see a problem here, but just to be sure -- if Perl 6 makes NCI visible so that Perl 6 programs can specify these signatures, will assuming that they're always ASCII strings be a problem? -- c