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

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

TC>     You will be miserable until you learn the difference between
TC>     scalar and list context, because certain operators know which
TC>     context they are in, and return a list in contexts wanting a
TC>     list, but a scalar value in contexts wanting a scalar.

TC> It sounds that you've not yet eradicated the misery of, well, if
TC> not ignorance, then at least of misunderstanding as far as it
TC> goes to how this context thing works.

I think we are in the edge cases here. I've been doing perl since
sometime in the mid perl4's and clearly I haven't run into something
that depended upon this.

I wonder how much it would hurt the -internals work.

I think I'm not alone in wanting to make the list/array dichotomy go away.

<chaim>
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• 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 Jonathan Scott Duff
• 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
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• 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 "EXPRwhile COND" should go by Nathan Torkington
• 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 "EXPRwhile COND" should go by Peter Scott
• 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 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 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