Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > It seems odd to require two syntactic elements to achieve one semantic. > And actually, after looking at A5, that's not what Larry wrote: > > my $x; > / (\S*) { let $x = .pos } \s* foo /
A typo, I believe. He has been very consistent in discussions that hypothetical bind, rather than assigning. Perhaps he's changed his mind since, but I haven't heard anything to that effect. Damian