> [returning values from a sub?]
As other posters have said, just return a list
of some sort. Note that stuff gets flattened.
So if you do:
sub flat {
$foo = '1';
@bar = (2, 3);
$baz['4'} = 5;
return $foo, @bar, %baz, ['qux', 'waldo']
}
@list = flat;
@list should contain 6 entries, effectively:
('1', 2, 3, '4', 5, ['qux', 'waldo'])
If you want to create some data structure and
maintain its structure on returning it, then return
a reference to the structure instead. As you can
see, that's what happened with the anonymous
array at the end (the qux waldo thing).
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Sometimes "auto flattening" or whatever you want
to call it is wonderful, other times its inconvenient.
It looks like when auto flattening applies may
change in perl6, but that's a couple years off.
