Re: RFC 132 (v1) subroutines should be able to return an lvalue

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:27:27AM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> Error proneness?  (Is that a word?)

Looks like a word to me :-)

>       sub foo {
>           my $lvalue;
>           ...
>           return $lvalue if want('LVALUE');
>       }

Hrm.  You're right.

        sub foo {
            return \$rvalue if want('LVALUE');
        }

(I'm just operating under the mode that "lreturn is icky, we can do
better", but I don't know what "better" is)

-Scott
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