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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:08:12PM -0800, Stephen McCamant wrote:
> * I've decided that my idea of turning on both the private flag and
> OPf_MOD (or OPf_REF) won't work because the op might have OPf_MOD
> for some other reason,
Right, yes. You wouldn't want to do that anyway.
> * Checking for real syntactic lvalue-ness significantly narrows the
> range of what subs can be lvalues.
Don't do that, then. :) I would set the flag on ops which were about to add
something to the stack. That'd mean that things like "shift" would still work.
> * What should
>
> sub f :lvalue {@a}; f() = "foo\n"; print "@a";
>
> do?
It should do @a = "foo\n";
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