> At a recent talk, Larry showed a line of code that was something like:
>
> (@a; @b; @c) := (@x; @y; 1,2,3);
>
> I'm curious about the mapping of @c to a list of constants; if I write
>
> @c[0]++;
>
> am I bumping the value of 1?
No. We've learnt that lesson, at least :-)
My understanding is that:
@c[0]++
will get you a run-time "Modification of a read-only value attempted" exception.
The Perl 5 analogy for binding an array is what happens to @_ in a subroutine:
sub foo { $_[0]++ }
foo(1,2,3);
Damian
