On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > [*] Unless it's a _feature_ that given tied $a, > > ($a = "aaa") =~ s/a/b/g > > would call STORE four times ("aaa", "baa", "bba", "bbb"). > > I'd expect two stores here. One for the initial setting of the value and > one for the final result of the global subst.
So how many stores do we expect for ($a = "xxx") =~ s/a/b/g and which of the possible answers would be more useful? -- "War against Terrorism" is an oxymoron