Re: RFC 132 (v1) subroutines should be able to return an lvalue

[Johan Vromans]

Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> But why introduce a new keyword "lreturn"?  What about something like
> this?
> 
>       sub foo {
>           my $lvalue : lvalue;
>           ...
>           return $lvalue if want('LVALUE');
>       }

Because you cannot do this with

  my %hash;
  sub address {
    lreturn $hash{address};
  }

-- Johan