On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Damian Conway wrote:
> Abhijit Mahabal wrote:
>
> > I am a little confused if the following is valid perl6:
> >
> > our &xsub = { $x };
>
> No. Illegal attempt to assign to a reference. You want aliasing/binding
> instead:
>
> our &xsub := { $x };
>
> (I like to think of := as "assignment to symbol table entry".)
Okay, that makes sense. A question about symbol tables, though: IIRC, only
packages have symbol tables, and blocks don't: they just have a lexical
pad. So is the C<our> redundent? Is the following an error?
my &xsub := { $x };
?
--abhijit
Abhijit Mahabal http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~amahabal/
