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Author: audreyt Date: Sun Jun 11 17:16:35 2006 New Revision: 9575 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: * S03: typo, nit, etc, reported by masak++. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Sun Jun 11 17:16:35 2006 @@ -149,10 +149,10 @@ operators that are known to return numbers, strings, or booleans. (Operators that imply list operations are excluded: C<@>, C<%>, and C<xx>, for instance. Hyper operators are also excluded, but -post-assigment forms such as C<SIMPLE += SIMPLE> is allowed.) +post-assigment forms such as C<SIMPLE += SIMPLE> are allowed. All other forms imply list assignment, and will evaluate both sides -of the assignment in list context (eventually). However, this is +of the assignment in list context at runtime. However, this is primarily a syntactic distinction, and no semantic or type information is used, since it influences subsequent parsing. In particular, even if a function is known to return a scalar value from its declaration,Thread Next