Re: Python discussion, anybody?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Cozens <simon@example.com> writes:

    Simon> If you ask for a scalar, reverse *will* reverse the scalar
    Simon> argument

Ah, that makes a lot more sense.  This is Perl, after all, which DWIMs
more often than it DWISes.[1]

Bonk![2]  Hey, wait a cotton-pickin' minute!  Perl takes the _return_
typoid as definitive?  Which is exactly the opposite of C++ (at least
ARM 1993 or so C++), which ignores it in overloading resolution.


Footnotes: 
[1]  IMO this is a misfeature.  Not a bug, just a feature that works
poorly for me.

[2]  Purple Foreheads Anonymous.

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