Larry Wall wrote:
: * In item context, a list of captures becomes a single Array object,
: and the question about whether or not it gets flattened gets deferred
: until its contents get looked at in list, slice, or hash context.
That's the intent. $() used to assume @@ inside till this latest
Jonathan Lang wrote:
Arguably list should be non-committal and we give
@() a different name like flat, but that grates in my brain for
some reason, if only because most list contexts would in the end
be flat anyway. And list in English already implies something
flatter than, say, an
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:23:44PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: Let me see if I understand this correctly:
:
: * In list context, a list of captures gets flattened.
Yes.
: * In slice context (a variant of list context), a list of captures
: doesn't get flattened.
More than that, the captures
Author: larry
Date: Sun Jun 3 17:23:15 2007
New Revision: 14415
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod
doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod
Log:
typo from Aaron Crane++
s/cat/list/ for flattening captures in order
cat() now only produces pseudo-strings even in list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Author: larry
Date: Sun Jun 3 17:23:15 2007
New Revision: 14415
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod
doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod
Log:
typo from Aaron Crane++
s/cat/list/ for flattening captures in order
cat() now only produces
