On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:12:00AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:54:02PM +0200, TSa wrote:
: : But are assignment ops allowed as initializer?
: :
: : my $z = $p but= { .y = 17 };
:
: Why not? It's only the first = that's potentially special. (And it's
: only for non-my, since my's = is an ordinary assignment at normal
: run time.) I don't see much syntactic difference between your example and
:
: state $z = $p += 17;
:
: The fact that both of them modify $p in passing is unrelated to the
: eventual use of the value to initialize something else.
Well, okay, I should clarify that. The meaning of "$p += 17" is
unrelated. However, the declarator before the = does control when
and how often that expression is evaluated.
Larry
