Re: Tying & Overloading

[John Porter]

Larry Wall wrote:
> I do expect that @() and $() will be used for interpolating list and
> scalar expressions into strings, and it is probably the case the $()
> would be a synonym for scalar().  @() would then be a synonym for
> the mythical list() operator.  Which probably, in Perl 6, turns out
> to be equivalent to [...] when used in a scalar context, and a no-op
> in list context.  That is, $() and @() would essentially be typecasts.

Yay!  Then we're nine tenths of the way to highlander variables!

-- 
John Porter