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

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