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Re: Getting rid of want()

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From:
Moritz Lenz
Date:
March 31, 2009 15:16
Subject:
Re: Getting rid of want()
Message ID:
49D29628.9000203@faui2k3.org
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On 2009 Mar 31, at 17:04, Moritz Lenz wrote:
>> We had a discussion on #perl6 tonight about how to implement want(),  
>> and
>> basically came to no conclusion. Then I came up with the idea that any
>> lazy implementor will come up with: drop it from the language.
> 
> Hm, I was under the impression that want() had already been dropped,  
> and subs return captures.

S06 still has a chapter

=head2 The C<want> function

Cheers,
Moritz

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