Re: Change "($one, $two)=" behavior for optimization? (was Re: RFC 175 (v1) Add C keyword to force list context (like C))

[Peter Scott]

At 10:52 AM 9/4/00 -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
>Peter Scott writes:
> > >    >     ($a, $b, $c) = <FH>;
> > >    > or
> > >    >     @a[4,1,5] = <FH>;
> > >    > only read three lines?
> > >
> > >I think this is a superb idea, and look forward to someone's RFC'ing it.
>
>Should be part of the want() context.

It is.  I interpreted Damian's remark to mean that it would be good if 
readline() took advantage of it, and that should be RFC'ed.

>  Permit operations to discover
>(as does split) how many elements they're being assigned to.

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies