On 2004-12-19 at 21:35:46, Luke Palmer wrote: > In Perl 5 you can do the hackish: > > (\my @foo)->[23] = 42;
Hm. My reaction to the above is, and I think I speak for the entire assemblage when I say this, "Yuckbo." :) Now, (my @foo)[23] would be somewhat better, but of course, that's attempting to assign to an element of a nonce list, not an array. I think it would be reasonable for { my @foo[23] = 42; } to be legal Perl 6 that declares @foo as lexical. Letting { my $foo[23] = 42; } work in Perl 5 would be weirder, but Perl6's "arrays always have @" means that it's pretty clear you're declaring an array rather than a single element. Just my 2c. -Mark