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From:
Stuart Cook
Date:
May 25, 2005 21:30
Subject:
Re: (1,(2,3),4)[2]
Message ID:
49b35106050525213048d7b690@mail.gmail.com
On 5/26/05, Stuart Cook <scook0@gmail.com> wrote:
> my $a, $b = 1, 2; # $b should contain 2, not 1
> my @foo = 3, 4, 5; # @foo should contain (3, 4, 5), not (list 3)
>
> What justification for the status quo could be so compelling that we
> feel the need to prevent both of these from doing the 'natural' thing?
(Scanning through the the history of this thread, I noticed the link
to Larry's comment about the precedence of "=" and ",". I personally
would still prefer them to be changed, but I guess it's not a big
deal, as long as we have warnings to catch obvious-but-wrong code like
my suggestions. When in doubt, use parens...)
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