On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:33:00AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >Ok, so set creates an alias. The string set opcode should also create an > >alias for consistency, no ? > > It does. Or it did last I checked...
It was changed to make a copy. A high level language implementor wanted Perl
language level assignment.
AUTO_OP set(s, s|sc) {
$1 = string_copy(interpreter, $2);
}
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Jason
