Re: Extra ?

[Brett W. McCoy]

On 21 Jun 2001, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> Brett> It's still scalar to scalar assignment.  The list isn't getting assigned
> Brett> to anything -- there's no list context so there is no list assignment.
>
> And there's actually no list being formed.  It's a scalar
> "comma-expression" on the right, semantic-wise.  'A, B' in a scalar
> context means 'eval A, throw away, eval B, returning B', recursively
> for a long list.

I think we said the same thing.  You just used more technical terms, like
"thingy".  (I was disappointed to see that "thingy" is not longer listed
in the glossary or index of the Camel Book)

-- Brett
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