> "PS" == Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PS> I find myself wishing there were something we could do about the
PS> context rules. They seem simple enough, individually, but when
PS> you put them together - well, there was a quiz a year or so ago -
PS> I forget whether it was in TPJ o
At 01:20 PM 9/3/00 +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
>> Modulo some superpositional silliness,
>
>Hey! I resemble that remark!
>
>Damian
I guess this means we should expect a N'Yuk module some time in the future...
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
>Hey, waitaminute. That isn't a list in sub fn in the first place; it's
>three expressions separated by scalar commas. Why is there no complaint
>about useless use of a constant in void context?
>$ perl -Mstrict -wle 'sub f{return(3,5,7)} my $x = f()'
>$ perl -Mstrict -wle 'my $x = (3,5,7)'
>
Peter Scott writes:
> Hey, waitaminute. That isn't a list in sub fn in the first place; it's
> three expressions separated by scalar commas. Why is there no complaint
> about useless use of a constant in void context?
>
> $ perl -Mstrict -wle 'sub f{return(3,5,7)} my $x = f()'
> $ perl -Mstri
At 01:45 PM 9/4/00 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >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. :-)
Hey, waitaminute. That isn't a list in sub fn in the first
