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Uh... no. perl variables aren't loose or untyped. They're just doubles,
string pointers and magic simultaneously. ;-) I had a weird moment when I
realized that a single scalar contain a double/integer value and
simultaneously an unrelated string value. That would be something like:
$a = 'string';
$a = 1;
and having both values be stored. Admittedly this level of perl trickery
involves having some C or XS code around but it's actually mentioned as a
possibility in one the perlguts manpage. And no, I'm not talking about
$a = 'something';
@a = ('another thing');
%a = ('yet', 'another',
'altogether', 'now.');
;-)
I just like it that perl has structures explicitly named 'magic' and
'more_magic' (a pointer to another 'majic' structure). It makes me think
of that more_magic story from the jargon file.
Joshua b. Jore
Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10
http://www.greentechnologist.org
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 phil at rephil.org wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:20:23AM -0600, Phillip.J.Crump at WellsFargo.COM wrote:
> > perl := yuck
> > java := good
>
> They both stink. Who needs object oriented programming or
> loose/un-typed variables? Fortran-77 rules.
>
> --
> I used to like HP before computers, and once I even liked Compaq,
> but I liked DEC better than HP and Compaq put together.
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