On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:07:02PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: : the only advantage in the above case is the different prececences of = : and <== which allows dropping of parens with the latter. i don't : consider that so important a win as to be used often. and they are at : equal huffman levels as the =() is matched in length by <==.
There's also the fact that <== can bind a lazy list, since we've said (if I recall correctly) that <== actually does binding rather than assignment, possibly even to the extent that my $b <== foo(); declares $b to be an iterator rather than an array ref. Larry