Re: Fwd: Re: dangerous perl (Re: is this reasonably save?)

2017-05-26 Thread lee
Kent Fredric writes: > On 26 May 2017 at 05:33, lee wrote: >> Perl doesn't have data structures, so variables in perl are not data >> structures. That is unfortunate. > > > So when I write: > > my $var = { > memory => { > total => 1024, > free => 100, >

Re: project euler #8

2017-05-26 Thread lee
Shlomi Fish writes: > Hi lee, > > I decided to try to give you another chance to be educated, despite Uri's > conclusion in the other thread. Hopefully you won't let me down. He has made a lot of conclusions and decided not to say anything further. I know it can be difficult to convince me of s

Re: Fwd: Re: dangerous perl (Re: is this reasonably save?)

2017-05-26 Thread Kent Fredric
On 27 May 2017 at 00:01, lee wrote: > You have a variable. Even in C, you'd have a variable as well. It would be a variable that contains a *pointer* to a data structure. The variable may be *typed*, but *types* don't impact anything about the data storage in memory. *types* in C are mechanism

Re: dangerous perl (Re: is this reasonably save?)

2017-05-26 Thread John SJ Anderson
Take. It. Off. The. List. I've asked nicely. Now I'm telling you. Take it off the list. John List moderator. -- John Anderson // j...@genehack.org > On May 26, 2017, at 19:09, Kent Fredric wrote: > >> On 27 May 2017 at 00:01, lee wrote: >> You have a variable. > > Even in C, you'd hav