Re: Elimination of Item|Pair and Any|Junction

[Autrijus Tang]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:12:00AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> Yes.  The only thing I don't like about it is that any() isn't an Any.

<snip>

>     - Object
>       - Mumble
>           - Item
>               - ...pretty much everything
>           - Pair
>       - Junction
>     - num, int, str...

Hrm.  I thought the original motivation of forcing people to write

    Any|Junction

was precisely to discourage people from accidentally write

    sub foo (Any $x)

and have $x accept a Junction.  In other words, any() should not be of
type Any.  Hence it still feels natural for me that Any occurs at the
position of Mumble.

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

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