On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:11, Goplat wrote:
> @(...) is the "list context" operator in S3. I hope array references won't
> explode in list context, that would be very annoying when making
> multi-dimentional arrays:
>
> @foo = ([1, 2], [3, 4]) # oops, would be (1, 2, 3, 4)
> @foo = ($([1, 2]
Aaron Sherman writes:
> I would expect [] to force itself into scalar context anyway. Is there
> ever a reason to want otherwise? Clearly the entire point of [] is to
> create a scalar array ref from a list of arguments.
>
> More to the point is there ever a reason to want any array ref in list
>
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:42:53AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Aaron Sherman writes:
: > More to the point is there ever a reason to want any array ref in list
: > context to NOT explode other than []? I can't think of any.
: >
: > push @a, $b
: >
: > Is it too non-obvious that if $b is an ar
Larry Wall wrote:
say @bar.elems; # prints 1
C? Not C?
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:35:46AM -0800, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
: Larry Wall wrote:
: > say @bar.elems;# prints 1
:
: C? Not C?
It's just a "println" spelled Huffmanly.
Larry
