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To: Arthur Bergman <s...@nanisky.com>
Cc: perl6-intern...@perl.org, ponie-...@perl.org
Subject: Re: References to hash elements?
References: <E8338D24-4068-11D8-896A-000A95A2734C@nanisky.com>	<20040106170516.GA2013@alibi.simon-cozens.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:07:21 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20040106170516.GA2013@alibi.simon-cozens.org> (Simon Cozens's message of "Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:05:16 +0000")
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From: pdcaw...@bofh.org.uk (Piers Cawley)

Simon Cozens <si...@simon-cozens.org> writes:

> Arthur Bergman:
>> I am wondering how the references to hash elements are planned to be 
>> done? The call to set_ must somehow be delayed until the time is right.
>
> I would have thought that a hash element would itself be a PMC rather
> than an immediate value, so a reference to that should be treated just
> like any other reference to a PMC.

I believe the correct name for this is 'Pair' isn't it?