Re: [FWP] Testing list?

[Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>]

At 12:30 PM 1/2/00 -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>In article <4.2.2.20000102111820.00a2b3d0@mail.psdt.com>,
>Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com> wrote:
> >And so the above can be written as
> >
> >         @a = @a ? @a : (1, 2);
> >
> >which doesn't have any problem evaluating @a in multiple contexts.
>
>How about:
>{ my $var = 'aaa'; sub newvarname() {$var++} }
>@{+newvarname} = 'hi';
>@{+newvarname} = 'there';
>print "@aaa @aab";
>
>Should you be able to just replace the = with an ||= and have it work?

I don't see that being any more of a problem with ||= than with any other 
<op>=.

> >It's merely a question of what would break if || propagated context as well.
>
>|| does propagate context...to the right hand side.

Sorry, I meant to say left-hand side.


Don't take this to mean that I'm jumping up and down yelling for someone to 
make context propagate down the left-hand side of ||... I just want to know 
what the resolution is/was.


--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies


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