On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Robin Berjon wrote:
> David Cantrell wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:21:50AM +0200, Robin Berjon wrote:
> >> sub foo { @_==2 ? shift->{foo} = shift : shift->{foo} }
> >
> > ^^^^^ ^^^^^
> > Is the order of evaluation of those two shift()s guaranteed?
>
> I thought about that as I was writing it, I normally use the $_[N] form. And in
> fact, it doesn't work since (now that coffee has settled in) it seems logical
> that the rhs gets evaluated before its assignment to the lhs, without which
> chained assignments wouldn't work.
>
> Ah well.
>
> sub foo { @_==2 ? shift->{foo} = pop : shift->{foo} }
This is semantically different, and therefore not an appropriate answer.
S.
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