Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:14:24PM -0800, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > > I'm not sure about the last two (in a lot of ways, they're more like > > := than = ), > > I don't see that.
Well, for one thing, my way would mean that `set` is always `:=`. Basically, though, my way would mean that copying the register's exact contents would always be done with `:=`, and more complicated assignments with potentially complex semantics would always be `=`. On the other hand, I can see why you would consider alias/not-alias to be a more important consideration. > > I suppose that copying looks like: > > S0 := copy S1 > > Yes, modulo the choice of the word "copy". I might call it "clone", > which emphasizes that the return value has its own identity. `clone` does sound better. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perl and Parrot hacker
