Re: lvalue subroutines

[Piers Cawley]

Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:50:26PM +1100, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
> > Given the following lvalue subroutine
> > 
> >     sub mysub : lvalue {
> >             $value;
> >     }
> > 
> > is there any way for mysub() to be able to determine that it
> > was called in an lvalue context?
> 
> Yeah there is, but you're not going to like it :-)

Oh! Yes! Baby!!! 

That's almost as good as (¬)^0.5.

-- 
Piers, who confesses that he did find himself wondering what (-¬)^0.5
would do (that's 'square root of - not' BTW)