And yes, I know that it *is* retaining its value as an object pointer, just not the contents. But if I write something like that, I pretty clearly mean the *contents*.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > I disagree; this is not Haskell, if I do something like that then I expect > %h2 to retain its original value while the RHS is being evaluated. > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 4:35 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> > wrote: > >> FWIW, this feels like a DIHWIDT case >> >> > On 27 Feb 2017, at 00:55, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev (via RT) < >> perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: >> > >> > # New Ticket Created by Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev >> > # Please include the string: [perl #130870] >> > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. >> > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130870 > >> > >> > >> > Code: >> > my %h1 = <1 a 2 b>; >> > my %h2 = <3 c 4 d>; >> > my %h3 = <5 e 6 f>; >> > %h2 = %h1, %h2, %h3; >> > say %h2 >> > >> > Result: >> > {1 => a, 2 => b, 5 => e, 6 => f} >> > >> > >> > Notice that it has everything except for elements of %h2. >> > >> > If this behavior is correct, then it should throw a warning. But I'd >> argue that it should work exactly the same way as if it was an assignment >> to a different hash. >> > > > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > allber...@gmail.com > ballb...@sinenomine.net > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
