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abigail
Date:
January 15, 2001 14:17
Subject:
Re: More lvalue tomfoolery
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20010115221929.2182.qmail@foad.org
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:46:21PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> Should this be legal?
> 
>     (($a) x 4) = 1;


Yeah, that would be neat.


    #!/opt/perl/bin/perl -w
    sub TIESCALAR {bless []} sub STORE {shift; print shift} tie $a => 'main';
    (($a) x 4) = split /(?<=\s)/ => "Just another Perl Hacker\n";



Abigail

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