On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 02:33:15PM +0200, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote: : Hi, : : my @array = <a b c>; : my $arrayref := @array; : : push $arrayref, "c"; : say [EMAIL PROTECTED]; # a b c d, no problem : : $arrayref = [<d e f>]; : say [EMAIL PROTECTED]; # d e f, still no problem : : $arrayref = 42; # !!! 42 is not a Ref of Array : : Should the last line be treated as : $arrayref = (42,); : which, as the LHS is in scalar context, would auto-referize to : $arrayref = [42]; : which would work? : : Or should that be an error? : : (FWIW, I favour option 2.)
Why shouldn't it do option 3, which is to work like in Perl 5? It should only be an error if $arrayref is declared with a type inconsistent with 42. Assignment goes to the container, not the current contents of that container. Larry
