> > @ary[0] =()= foo(); # " " " " " " " "
>
> Hm, thats a change from perl5. In perl5 that would assign the number of
> elements returned from foo(). Is there a good reason for this change ?
Firstly, Larry may have to rule on which behaviour actually *is* invoked
there.
Secondly, my understanding was that arrays/lists (and there will be less
distinction between the two in Perl 6) will *always* enreference in
scalar contexts, including here.
If you want the number of elements, you'd write:
@ary[0] = foo().length(); # explicit request for length
@ary[0] = +[foo()]; # numerification produces length
Damian
