Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go

>>>>> "TC" == Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com> writes:

TC> Well, that depends.  Often you must delay till run-time.  When Perl
TC> simply sees something like:
TC>     sub fn { return @blah } 
TC> it can't know whether you'll use that as:
TC>     $x = fn();
TC> or
TC>     @x = fn();
TC> or
TC>     fn();

I think with the -internals idea of pushing a thingee on the stack
rather than flattening the list, the actual effect of the assingment
can easily be delayed with little cost to runtime.

Though Randal will jump all over me. It might be worthwhile enough
to kill
	sub fn { return (7,8,9,10) }

	$x = fn();	# $x == 10

<chaim>
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• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
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• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPRwhile COND" should go by Christopher J. Madsen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPRwhile COND" should go by Peter Scott
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Bart Lateur
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
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• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Christopher J. Madsen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Chaim Frenkel
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Chaim Frenkel
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPRwhile COND" should go by Peter Scott
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Chaim Frenkel
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Chaim Frenkel
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Chaim Frenkel