Re: To :D or not to :D

On 2015-10-12 1:25 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 09:51:13PM +0200, Mark Overmeer wrote:
>> Can you give me an example?  Many other languages are capable to live
>> without undef and have first class type objects.
>
> Keep in mind that what Perl 6 calls a "type object" isn't quite the
> same as class objects in other languages -- a Perl 6 typename is
> really an undefined instance of a class.  In other words, the
> identifiers C<Int>, C<Rat>, C<Array> etc. refer to instances of
> those classes just like the literals C<3>, C<4/5>, and C<[1,2,3]> are
> instances of those classes.  They share the same method spaces.

Hey, that sounds like a nice elegant design, I learned something new. -- Darren 
Duncan