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On Nov 17, Moeller Wolf-Dietrich said:
>Wrong assignment in nested assignment together with subroutine call.
>
>Given one assignment with a concatenation on the right hand side.
>The first term of this concatenation is an assignment of a concatenation,
>enclosed in parentheses.
This only happens with lexicals.
my ($A, $B);
$B = ($A = '' . foo()) . "y";
$D = ($C = '' . foo()) . "y";
print "$A,$B\n"; # xy,xy
print "$C,$D\n"; # x,xy
sub foo { "x" }
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<stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
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