>>>>> "PS" == Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PS> I find myself wishing there were something we could do about the
PS> context rules. They seem simple enough, individually, but when
PS> you put them together - well, there was a quiz a year or so ago -
PS> I forget whether it was in TPJ or Usenet - where someone posted 10
PS> or so code fragments and challenged readers to figure out what
PS> they did. And they were all very simple things on the order of
PS> my($x,$y) = ($z,fn($w)). 'Expert' users were those who got more
PS> than 7 right. Unfortunately this is an empty gripe since I have
PS> no idea where to start simplifying.
I think that's what I'm trying for.
I'd like to go for the following changes,
. elminate the language specification that lists are flattened
This would allow having
(@x, @y) = (@y, @x);
. the dichotomy of lists and arrays.
. context applies only to the first level of an expression.
Working together, this would allow
(@x, $foo, @y) = (@y, (1,3,5), @x)
What $foo would contain is up for grabs. I (and Graham(?)) would
prefer to have $foo == 3.
push( &fn(), 35)
could be made to work. No longer would a list be returned but an
unnamed array. Hmm, might work together with lvalued subs.
<chaim>
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