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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> wrote:
> * David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> [2011-11-30 22:50]:
>> if a reference to something that doesn't exist didn't autoviv it, and
>> was false in boolean context, and we allowed L-valuereferences, this
>> would almost work:
>
> So… if only Perl was some radically different language then it would let
> us do something… else than what we wanted?
ha ha. By introducing a dummy variable to do the copying, EXPR \\=
VALUE could expand to \EXPR ||= \do { my $dummy = VALUE}. My point,
aside from beating the dead horse of L-value references, which
confuses everyone but the subset of C++ programmers who think C++
references are the bee's knees, and all the use cases seem to be
covered by Data::Alias anyway, was supposed to be, "here's another
reason that \\ makes sense as how to spell exists-or."
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Application of Porter's value chain model to the executive function
reveals that the executive process transforms the input of information
into the output of decisions.
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