Re: RFC 171 (v1) my Dog $spot should call a constructor implicitly

At 04:20 PM 8/30/00 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >Or if clearly make basic types look *very* different from user-defined
> >types:
>
> >       my Dog $spot;
> >       my *int $i;             # types that start with * are "basic"
>
>Intrinsics (basic types) are in lower-case.
>User-defined types aren't.
>
>     our num  $Count;
>     my  Word @verbs;
>
>One wonders whether bigna and complices should make the builtin list.

Do you really mean to suggest that $SPECIALVARS be (by convention) 
uppercase but built in types be (by grammar) lowercase?

>--tom