On Aug 16, 8:21pm, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
# this is perl6
sub foo :lvalue ($new) {
$variable = $new;
}
A nice idea, but one of the reasons for the original proposal was
to make
$foo-bar = $x;
behave the same as:
$foo-bar($x);
Your proposal provides a neat solution for
At 07:04 PM 8/17/00 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
Nathan Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Most of the places I've seen them used really well is if
they walk and talk like other forms:
$cgi-param($var, @val); # traditional
$cgi-param($var) = @val; # lvalue, but same thing
I
At 05:49 AM 8/18/00 +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
And I keep pointing out that this is only one aspect of lvalue subroutines.
The point of an lvalue subroutine is not to make assignment to the return
value
work, it is to make the return value an *lvalue*. That's a much more general
thing, because
