Reverted my Pair.new fix with b00d92d Suggest we mark this as stalled and/or @LARRY
> On 16 Aug 2016, at 23:11, Zefram <zef...@fysh.org> wrote: > > 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
