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in reply to (tye)Re2: Exegesis 2 - Perl 6
in thread Exegesis 2 - Perl 6

First you are right about the real reading of the win. But I think that their first implementation should just work without much worrying about optional optimizations at all. Attempts to have multiple things that could be scalars should be a second pass. Attempts to become smart about it (and not promote those ints to full scalars at the first moment) might take a while.

As for the third point, Larry will have to decide on a string concatenation operation other than the current. Personally I can learn a new concatenation operation fairly easily. As long as he doesn't pick +, I won't really care what he does there...