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

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