On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 08:19:00PM +0200, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
: But there is a problem with the ordinary assignment form:
:
: ($head, @tail) = foo();
:
: If the LHS is an ordinary list (i.e., if we don't use help from the
: grammar/macros), then the @tail would get flattened before it re
HaloO,
Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
But there is a problem with the ordinary assignment form:
($head, @tail) = foo();
If the LHS is an ordinary list (i.e., if we don't use help from the
grammar/macros),
What is a 'ordinary List' to you? I thought (,) constructs a Lazy list?
then the @tail
Hi,
Yuval Kogman wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 19:16:55 +0200, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
>
>>my ($head, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) := foo();
>
> if foo returns a list of scalars >=2 this is like parameter
> unpacking:
>
> my ($head, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) = *foo();
[...]
Right, but I wanted to d
. ($a, $b, $c) = foo()), this post only speaks about
> using lists containing @arrays as lvalues).
BTW, for simplicities sake perhaps there is an MMD on &infix:<,>,
one for lvalue context, the other for read only context?
>discarding any additional arguments, i.e. assumin
se binding's property that the LHS is a subroutine
signature. (Note that I do not talk about the LHS being a list of
scalars (e.g. ($a, $b, $c) = foo()), this post only speaks about
using lists containing @arrays as lvalues).
If we generally recommend this solution especially to
