> OK, will at least this statement still work as it does in Perl5? No.
> Notice addition of parens. ....which, as you surmise later, have no effect on scoping issues. > If that changes, I for one will need to go rewrite virtually every script > and library I maintain, ....or let p52p6 do it for you. But, yes, it is a major and fundamental change. > My personal pain aside, it seems counter-intuitive to me. > $result gets my'ed over and over and over. Err...no it doesn't. It gets C<my>'d exactly once: at compile-time. It gets *assigned* over and over again. > Even if the addition of the parens does make a difference, it doesn't look > quite logical to me. Parens in an evaluation are just grouping mechanisms, > not structural controls. Precisely. That's why they make no difference. Damian
