Re: Interrogative statements

2006-10-20 Thread Juerd
Jonathan Lang skribis 2006-10-19 18:27 (-0700): > Let's say that I want > >$expression?; > > to mean the same thing as the statement > >$_ = $expression; > > That is, any statement that ends with a '?;' instead of a ';' > evaluates in scalar context instead of void context and stores th

Interrogative statements

2006-10-19 Thread Jonathan Lang
Let's say that I want $expression?; to mean the same thing as the statement $_ = $expression; That is, any statement that ends with a '?;' instead of a ';' evaluates in scalar context instead of void context and stores the result as the topic '$_'. (I was going to suggest '?' intead of