This is yet another proposal that is probably a few years late. I've had some (admittedly limited) experience with S-Lang in the past: the language has currently a syntax that resembles much that of C but was originally designed to be strongly stack-based and still is behind the scenes, a consequence of which is that it supports an (undocumented, AFAIK!) alternative RPN syntax.
Now Perl is not like that, although internally Perl5's bytecode is stack-based, whereas it's known that Perl6's one will be register-based. However I wonder if an implicit stack could be provided for return()s into void context. It is well known that currently split() in void context has the bad habit of splitting into @_, which is the reason why doing that is deprecated. But it's somewhat anomalous amongst perl's functions I'd say. To be fair I've *never* felt the need to have a stack like that in Perl, but who knows? It may come handy in some cases... Any thoughts? Michele -- > Comments should say _why_ something is being done. Oh? My comments always say what _really_ should have happened. :) - Tore Aursand on comp.lang.perl.misc
