Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs

[Edward Peschko]

> If I have:
> 
>     (my $foo1, $bar1) = (my $foo2, $bar2) = ("foo", "bar");
> 
> then '(my $foo1, $bar1)' is in void context, while '(my $foo2, $bar2)'
> isn't.
> 
> Do you really want them to behave differently?
> 
> > best way to shoot down my suggestion is an example where existing behaviour
> > can't be determined from void/scalar/list context.
> 
> Will the above do?

well, I'd say no. How many people are going to run into this and have it not 
do what they expect as opposed to:

my $a, $b, $c;

However, I think that:

my $a, $b, $c;

and

my $a, $b, $c = @_;

should work the same and they wouldn't do so if 'void' context was the only 
criteria used.

Ed