Brandon Allbery via RT wrote: >I think .VAR can remain visible as long as the Scalar can't escape from it.
What would it yield if not the Scalar? That's the essence of .VAR expressions. To prevent the Scalar escaping, you can't have that available as an expression type. >(Although I do wonder whether .VAR is actually Perl 6 as opposed to Rakudo.) It's mentioned in the specs. S12 specifically advertises using it to get at Scalar objects. Scalar containers themselves are mentioned in a few places, but not much elaborated on. As I said, it looks like intentional reification. -zefram
