On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:49:32AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > > print 'Today\'s weather will be '.join($", $weather->temp()).
> > > ' degrees and sunny.';
> > >
> > > However if temp() calls wantarray(), the result will be FALSE (scalar).
>
> I think what he's trying to get at is that these should all work the
> same:
>
> print "Here's some @stuff";
> print "Here's some $h->{stuff}";
> print "Here's some $r->stuff";
That may be, but I don't think calling it in one context, accepting another,
and lying about it all is the right way to go. I think I'll let the author
try to explain what he had intended.
> > > print 'There is '.$obj->foo(this => $yar, that => 2 + 2). ' in my head.";
> >
> > Now perl is parsing full statements within strings.
>
> This already happens with:
>
> print "Here's some $h->{$stuff}";
> print "Here's some $a->[$stuff + $MIN]";
>
> So it's not that confusing, and quite consistent.
Well, I still find it confusing (most probably because of the length of the
examples), but it is indeed consistent. Stupid mistake on my part.
Michael
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