Re: [FWP] Fun with terminology

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> 
> The question is:
> 
> Why does the sentence say "Perl's prefix dereferencing operators are
> typed"?
> 
> And my answer is:
> 
> The phrase "Perl's dereferencing operators are typed" would not be
> correct.


The more fundamental question, which seems to be begged here, is:

What does it mean to say that something in Perl is "typed"?

Perl enforces very few type requirements; but one that it DOES
enforce is that when a dereference is attempted, the thing being
dereferenced must be the correct kind of reference.

	@{ \%h }

is a fatal error, and it's all because of type.

So, chipmunk, how am I misunderstanding you?

-- 
John Porter


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