scalars vis-a-vis non-scalars
These would be perlish, nice, terse, succint, and economical: my ($a, $b, $c) = 0; @h(@colours)='red'; ($i, $i, $k) += 2; @nums = 10 * @nums; . . . Ed _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: scalars vis-a-vis non-scalars
Ed Mills wrote: These would be perlish, nice, terse, succint, and economical: ... ($i, $i, $k) += 2; @nums = 10 * @nums; These are both covered by RFC 82.