Re: my $howmany=wantarray; while($howmany--){push @R,onemore};

2001-06-02 Thread schwern
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:06:41PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: > having wantarray return the number of items needed, or -1 for > all of them, would work very nicely for user-written partial returners. > > Did anyone RFC that? There was quite a bit of discussion about how to handle this on list

Re: my $howmany=wantarray; while($howmany--){push @R,onemore};

2001-06-02 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Saturday 02 June 2001 11:21 am, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > On Friday 01 June 2001 11:06 pm, David L. Nicol wrote: > > having wantarray return the number of items needed, or -1 for > > all of them, would work very nicely for user-written partial returners. > > > > Did anyone RFC that? > > RFC 21'

Re: my $howmany=wantarray; while($howmany--){push @R,onemore};

2001-06-02 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Friday 01 June 2001 11:06 pm, David L. Nicol wrote: > having wantarray return the number of items needed, or -1 for > all of them, would work very nicely for user-written partial returners. > > Did anyone RFC that? RFC 21's expectation counts, I believe. (Except it's ~0 vice -1 for all items.)

my $howmany=wantarray; while($howmany--){push @R,onemore};

2001-06-01 Thread David L. Nicol
having wantarray return the number of items needed, or -1 for all of them, would work very nicely for user-written partial returners. Did anyone RFC that? -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] DWIM before autovivify unless strict