On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 03:03:20AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 10:44:30AM -0000, Piotr Fusik wrote:
> > I thought "the assignment" is "the = operator". So:
> > "for $[ = 0" is scalar assignment in list context.
> > "if (($[) = 0)" is list assignment in scalar context.
> > Am I wrong?
>
> No, you are correct. I believe Rick was speaking imprecisely, meaning
> that the first assignment is a scalar assignment and the the second a
> list assignment.
Right. And that's what the tests are meant to, er, test. So they
should probably read
pass('optimized scalar assignment to $[ used to segfault');
pass('optimized list assignment to $[ used to segfault');
but I think I've done enough damage. Patches welcome. :-)
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Rick Delaney
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