Re: [FWP] Testing list?

[Peter Haworth <pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com>]

John Porter wrote:
> Uri Guttman wrote:
> > >>>>> "JP" == John Porter <jdporter@min.net> writes:
> >   JP>     ( $a, $b, @c ) ||= ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 );
> > 
> > yecch!! that implies the || is applied to each member on the left side
> > and matching with the right side. 
> 
> Huh?  
>      ( $a, $b, @c ) ||= ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 );
> would be the same as
>      ( $a, $b, @c ) or
>      ( $a, $b, @c ) = ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 );

But ($a,$b,@c) is always true!

(@d,@e) may not always be true, but then, how many values go into each array
with  (@d,@e) ||= (1,2,3,4,5) ?

I can't see this working unless it does distribute the ||= over the elements of
the LHS, which is horrible.

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