> David Storrs wrote: > > > > Thinking about it, I'd rather see lvalue slices become a nicer version > > of C<splice()>. > > > > my @start = (0..5); > > my @a = @start; > > > > @a[1..3] = qw/ a b c d e /; > > print @a; # 0 a b c d e 4 5 > > What would happen if I used 1,2,3 instead of 1..3? Would it do the same > thing?
Of course. > I wanna know what happens if I do: > > @a[0,2,4] = qw/ a b c d e /; It would probably do the same as in Perl 5; the same thing as: @a[0,2,4] = << a b c >>; (those << >> brackets are new shorthand for qw, not that qw is going anywhere) Luke > -- > $a=24;split//,240513;s/\B/ => /for@@=qw(ac ab bc ba cb ca > );{push(@b,$a),($a-=6)^=1 for 2..$a/6x--$|;print "[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ]\n";((6<=($a-=6))?$a+=$_[$a%6]-$a%6:($a=pop @b))&&redo;}