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

[Simon Cozens]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:35:56AM -0500, John Porter wrote:
> Or eliminate $ and @ from the language.  :-)  or rather :-/.

Well, you can do that now that 
    foo = bar;
calls the AUTOLOADed lvalue sub foo. The rest of the implementation is
left as an exercise for the reader. :)

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