Re: Change "($one, $two)=" behavior for optimization? (was Re: RFC 175 (v1) Add C keyword to force list context (like C))

[Tom Christiansen]

>Well, it only does this if it's not something like 'split', then! 

Yes, it does "do it" with split.  split is defined to do what it
does, how it does it.  *This* is the kind of senseless harping that
annoys me, Nathan.

> So it's not 100% consistent. 

Wrong: It's 100% consistent with the documentation.

And even so, so what?  Nothing in Perl is, especially if you invent
your own imagined consistencies without reading the documentation.

>My point was whether or not this is important enough to be preserved? 

Yes.

--tom