On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 06:16:26PM +0200, Dr.Ruud wrote: : larry schreef: : : > +Likewise, from the fact that list context flattens inner arrays and : > +lists, it follows that a reduced assignment does no special syntactic : > +dwimmery, and hence only scalar assigments are supported. Therefore : > + : > + [=] $x, @y, $z, 0 : > + [+=] $x, @y, $z, 1 : > + : > +are equivalent to : > + : > + $x = @y[0] = @y[1] = @y[2] ... @y[-1] = $z = 0 : > + $x += @y[0] += @y[1] += @y[2] ... @y[-1] += $z += 1 : : I assume that : : [=] $x, @y : : is equivalent to : : $x = @y[0] = @y[1] = @y[2] ... @y[-2] = y[-1] : : then.
Yes. : Or is a scalar required at the end? Yes, but @y[-1] is a perfectly fine scalar. Larry
