Re: RFC 110 (v3) counting matches

[Bart Lateur]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:13:47 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:

>We already *HAVE* a token set that forces list context, thank you 
>very much.  It's called "()=".  I'm glad you like it.

        $_ = 'a!a!a!a!a!a';
        $count = () = split /!/;
        print $count;
-->
        1

'()=' is not perfect. It is also butt ugly. It is a "dirty hack".

p.s. Has anybody already suggested that we ought to have a nicer
solution to execute perl code inside a string, replacing "${\(...)}" and
"@{[...]}", which also won't ever win a beauty contest?  Oops, wrong
mailing list.

-- 
        Bart.