On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:51:03PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > No, *@ is the slurpy array parameter. I was thinking of > > (*,*,$x) = @array; # skips first two elements > > to suppose that @* might mean "no name" if the syntax would not allow for > bare @ there without an identifier.
S02:1627 S06:883 S06:2119 S10:117 So I think (-->@) is fine as shorthand for returning something guaranteed to provide the Positional role. (Those underlying sigil roles have long names to discourage their explicit use, in any case. :) Larry