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From:
Audrey Tang
Date:
May 2, 2006 11:14
Subject:
Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9076 - doc/trunk/design/syn
Message ID:
4457A095.6090803@audreyt.org
james@mastros.biz wrote:
> Is my ($foo, *, $bar) = 1..3 legal perl6?  my ($foo, undef, $bar) =
> 1..3; is valid perl5, but AFAIK that is completely undocumented.  (It's
> quite useful from time to time

Most likely yes, as lvalue * can just act as a /dev/null.

> -- now if only my (@rest, $almost, $last) =
> function_returning_many_thingies could work...

This may be implemented by allowing slurpy scalar _after_ slurpy array.
But what would be the use case?

Thanks,
Audrey



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