Re: Please make "last" work in "grep"

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:36:11PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:29:51PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 May 2001 17:05:31 +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> > 
> > >wantarray-ness is already passed along the call stack today. Thats
> > >the whole point of it. So what is the difference in passing a number
> > >instead of a boolean ?
> > 
> > Because you might have a wantarray situation that expects no values?
> > 
> >     () = whateveryouwant();
> 
> I am sure that situation is handled by the 'want' RFC. I have not
> read it recently, but I suspect in this case want('LIST') would
> return that magical "0 but true" or something similar.

Hopefully the "something similar", I hope in Perl 6 we will able to
bury the "0 but true" workaround to the backyard on a moonless night :-)

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