My understanding is that the P6 way to do that is to return a Capture
containing the desired return values (which can lazily do things only
when accessed) in the appropriate slots.

On 7/28/09, Jon Lang <datawea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Larry Wall wrote:
>> Moritz Lenz wrote:
>> : Either it's parsed as '@a[0] = (W, W)' (list assignment), then @a should
>> : get both elements, and so should @z.
>>
>> Not according to S03, at least by one reading. �...@a[0] as a scalar
>> container only wants one item, so it only takes the first item off
>> the list, and the list assignment produces a warning on the second
>> because it's discarded.  Since an assignment returns its left side,
>> only one element is available to @z from @a[0].
>
> So, do we still have p5's 'want_array' (or whatever it was called)?
> That is, the predicate that tells the you whether the function is
> being called in item or list context?  I know that the generalized
> 'want' function proved to be unworkable; but I'd expect p6 to at least
> be able to do everything that p5 can do; and that includes functions
> that are aware of whether they're being used as singular or plural.
>
> --
> Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
>

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