Re: assign to magic name-of-function variable instead of "return"

[James Mastros]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:36:59PM -0600, David L. Nicol wrote:
> So a way
> to have the feature (direct assignment to external lvalue) and maintain
> portability might be to forget about magic names and just make the new
> LNV (which I am calling $__ in this thread) mean "An alias for the
> L-value of what the subroutine return value will get assigned to
A /much/ better syntax, IMHO.  However, $__ must act sanely when we're
called as an inner function (IE foo(bar(42))).

And I always hated that about VB and Pascal -- you can assign to the magic
variable, but can't modify it.  And if you try, you don't error, you
recruse.  And perl will happily recruse until you run out of memory, and VB
will give a stack overflow, and take down the IDE and your code unless
you're careful.

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