On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:10:29AM +0800, Audrey Tang wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is my ($foo, *, $bar) = 1..3 legal perl6? my ($foo, undef, $bar) = > > 1..3; is valid perl5, but AFAIK that is completely undocumented. (It's > > quite useful from time to time > > Most likely yes, as lvalue * can just act as a /dev/null. > > > -- now if only my (@rest, $almost, $last) = > > function_returning_many_thingies could work... > > This may be implemented by allowing slurpy scalar _after_ slurpy array. > But what would be the use case?
Hm, possibly I should specify what I mean by "work" -- as if I'd specified C<< my (@last, $almost, @rest) = reverse(function_returning_many_thingies); >>. As to use case... um, I'm sure I've had it come up for me, but I can't think of where it'd be terribly common such that the extra cognative overhead is worth it, come to think of it. I withdraw the (stupid) suggestion. -=- James Mastros
