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Re: RFC 118 (v1) lvalue subs: parameters, explicit assignment, and wantarray() changes

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JVromans
Date:
August 17, 2000 13:51
Subject:
Re: RFC 118 (v1) lvalue subs: parameters, explicit assignment, and wantarray() changes
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Damian Conway <damian@cs.monash.edu.au> writes:

> 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 it allows every other type
> of modification to work too.

Exactly!

-- Johan
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