Re: assign to magic name-of-function variable instead of "return"

[Simon Cozens]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:12:31PM -0600, David L. Nicol wrote:
>       sub subname(proto){
>               # in here, the bareword "subname" is a magic
>               # alias for the lvalue this routine is getting 
>               # assigned to, if any.
>       }

It always confused me in Pascal (`What, I'm assigning to the *function*?
Huh?') and then C came along and then the name of the function meant its
address. Let's not even more scary. Assigning to barewords? Blurgh. At the
very least, make @subname and $subname special lexicals.

> We could even define a new line noise variable

Oh great. :(

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