Does ‘state’ govern ‘:=’ the way it governs ‘=’? In other words, just as this:
state $x = 1;
only assigns to $x once (per closure), does the same apply to this?
state $x := $y;
I can’t find anything in the specs that implies that it does.
The reason I ask is that I am currently implementing binding for Perl 5, but
the syntax is different—
\$x = \$y;
(The reason for the different syntax is that, when we tried to use :=, we could
not find a coherent way to handle edge cases [e.g., flattening vs not
flattening]. Reusing existing Perl 5 syntax seemed the most straightforward
and intuitive approach.)
—and I am debating whether \state $x = \$y should bind only once or every time
the surrounding code is executed. I could argue it either way (though I am
leaning toward the latter), so I thought to find out what Perl 6 does.
