On 6 Oct 2002, Smylers wrote: : Do parens still provide list context on the left side of an assignment?
Er, kind of. More precisely, use of parens on the left provides a flattening list context on the right side, just as in Perl 5. I guess I did not make clear that a basic Perl 6 design decision was that = will appear to work exactly as it does in Perl 5, while all the new semantics get put into := instead. In fact, = doesn't work exactly the same, because it lazily evaluates things like ranges and other potentially infinite lists. But that should be more or less transparent. Larry
