Hi Adam,
Are you talking about doing:
sub foo {
my $arg1 = 1;
my $arg2 = 2;
my ($one, $two) = bar($arg1, $arg2);
print qq{$one and $two};
}
sub bar {
my $arg1 = shift;
my $arg2 = shift;
return ++$arg1, ++$arg2;
}
Cheers,
Kevin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:58:06AM -0400, Adam Theo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed
forth:
> hello, all. i just signed onto this list, and i have to say *wow, it's active!*.
>just got my first digest version, and it has over 1,400 lines in it!
>
> well, anyway, while i hope to be able to help out and give advice and answers to
>many people on this list, i have a question of my own right now.
>
> i am making a perl program (using Tk for a GUI), and it makes frequent use of my()
>and many subroutines. up till now, i've just been having the program work by passing
>scalarref's from one my'ed sub to the next using &this_sub(\$ref1, \$ref2);, etc.
>
> but, now that i'm near the end of completing this program, i have found a spot where
>i will basically need to do the opposite. i will need to have one subroutine that
>generates the values formerly passed along as arguments to the many other subs, and
>now have these many other subs be bale to calkl this new subroutine, and get *back*
>info, instead of just sending it.
>
> so, in short, any way i can get a subroutine to send *back* arguments to the piece
>of code that called it? all of this will be within the same program, i just am hoping
>there is a way to do this.
>
> thanks all.
>
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