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On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 08:14, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > I wonder if this could be turned into yet another context -- "reverse
> > list" context -- causing any returning array to get reversed on the
> > stack before being returned, in a lighter way than calling the reverse
> > function. Just another idea.
>
> Based on the number of regression tests that I broke while implementing
> this, I don't think that it's a very common scenario, so would be complicating
> the general case for something rather specific and very rare. Plus it's unclear
> how to make any of it work in a backwards compatible way.
>
> Nicholas Clark
I hope you had fun trying.
How impossible is it to find out the size of an Lvalue array? I'm
imagining defining the true value of wantarray() function to be
a reference to the array that is to be filled by the result.
Is that possible?.
--
david nicol
"People used to be able to read my thoughts, but
it doesn't appear to work any more. Should I eat less cheese?"
-- Elizabeth Woods
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