On Tue Jun 30 01:56:39 2009, allb...@ece.cmu.edu wrote: > I thought unary + was scalar/item? context in perl6, not numify.
When in doubt, check the spec. :) S03 (]): ] Unlike in Perl 5, where + is a no-op, this operator coerces to ] numeric context in Perl 6. So prefix:<~> stringifies, prefix:<+> numifies, and prefix<?> boolifies. There's some kind of nice symmetry to that, isn't there?