On 2003-02-11 at 16:52:36, Dave Whipp wrote: > "Mark J. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > > On 2003-02-11 at 17:44:08, Mark J. Reed wrote: > > > pop @{[@a,@b,@c]} > > > > > > It creates an anonymous array, then removes the last element, > > > leaving two elements in the array - which is irrelevant since > > > the array is then discarded completely. > > Minor correction: we don't know how many elements are left in the > > array - it depends on how many elements were in @a, @b, and @c to > > start with. One less than that. :) > > These days you need the splat operator to flatten lists: so the above starts > out as a list of 3 array-refs, and the pop returns 1 array-ref, leaving 2 in > the anon-array -- which then becomes garbage, to be collected sometime. That may be true in Perl6, but my example was in Perl5 - to demonstrate that the equivalent of [@a,@b,@c].pop currently works, despite the previous poster's statement that it doesn't make sense.
But I didn't think it was true in Perl6 either - [@a,@b,@c] supplies list context, so each of the arrays should be automatically flattened. -- Mark REED | CNN Internet Technology 1 CNN Center Rm SW0831G | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Atlanta, GA 30348 USA | +1 404 827 4754
