On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:58:58PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
>
> But reading the code it seems to me that the code above would not do
> what the user expected anyway. The code in pp_aassign looks like it is
> trying to do the same thing regardless of the LHS being an array or a
> hash. So it would seem the stack would have the same contents as the
> RHS and not whats left after the hash assignment had removed
> duplicates.
It looks like it's trying to treat arrays and hashes differently to me,
in particular note the comment:
/* Removes from the stack the entries which ended up as
* duplicated keys in the hash (fix for [perl #24380]) */
Maybe that fix just didn't have enough test cases. As for what it
should do, I just found in perlop
Similarly, a list assignment in list context produces the
list of lvalues assigned to, and a list assignment in
scalar context returns the number of elements produced by
the expression on the right hand side of the assignment.
So I think Boris's code should do what he expected.
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Rick Delaney
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