On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Larry Wall wrote: > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, John Williams wrote: > : On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Larry Wall wrote: > : > > : > Yes, in fact any list forced into scalar context will make a ref in Perl 6: > : > > : > $arrayref = (1,2,3); > : > : That would seem to obviate the need for brackets to define array > : references. Is there any case where [1,2,3] would be needed instead of > : (1,2,3)? > > Sure, in a list context. [1,2,3] is really short for scalar(1,2,3).
I was just thinking that $((1,2,3)) is also the same as [1,2,3], and shorter than scalar(1,2,3). ~ John Williams
