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?


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