Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Modulo some superpositional silliness,
Hey! I resemble that remark!
And we love you for it.
--
Piers
"TC" == Tom Christiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
TC Oh. You want lists to act like arrays. That's a very big change.
Do you have any objection? The intended avoidance of flattening to as
late as possible might have that effect.
You are letting the scalar context of the caller to bleed
Then please explain why scalar(return (1,2,3)) doesn't do what at first
glance it seems it should.
Because X(Y) != Y(X). You should have written "return scalar" if you
wanted to return a scalar.
And for the life of me I can't see how
$x=(1,2, (3,4,fn,6) )
fn ends up in scalar
"TC" == Tom Christiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
TC You will be miserable until you learn the difference between
TC scalar and list context, because certain operators know which
TC context they are in, and return a list in contexts wanting a
TC list, but a scalar value in
At 06:49 AM 9/3/00 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
sub fn { return (3,5,7) }
$x = fn;# I want $x==3
Why should it return the first one? It returns the last one!
It's just doing what you told it, which was:
$x = 3;
$x = 5;
$x = 7;
It does? What's
package main;
sub fn { return (3, 5, 7) }
tie $x, 'MaiTai';
$x = fn;
$ /tmp/foo
STORE: 7
Why don't I see three STOREs?
Because Perl is too clever to bother. :-)
--tom
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