Bart Lateur writes: : Because you might have a wantarray situation that expects no values? : : () =3D whateveryouwant(); : : You can always expect one more than is on the LHS. : : How is this currently handled with split()? It fakes up a third argument that is one more than the length of the list. In Perl 6, we'll have a unary * that (in an lvalue or formal parameter) marks the following item as a "slurper". So in a list assignment, these work differently: (@a, @b, @c) = ...; # provides 3 scalar contexts (@a, @b, *@c) = ...; # provides 2 scalar and 1 list context So by analogy, we could conceivably have: ($a, $b, $c) = split; # splits in 3 spots ($a, $b, *$rest) = split; # splits in 2 spots But what that would mean in a formal parameter list, I have no idea. So * on a scalar might not fly in general. A unary * in rvalue context defeats signature checking for the rest of the arguments in the list. So Perl 5's: &foo(@list) would likely be translated to Perl 6's: foo(*@list) Larry
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