Re: set attribute return values

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 03:37:32PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> > All the attributes are the same.  What do you want $w->prio(6) to
> > return?  The old priority or the new priority?  Is it really worth the
> > trouble of returning anything?
> 
> A feature of Perl I really like is that it works in expressions. An operation
> supplies something, a statement supplies something, a block supplies something
> and so forth. This is VERY useful to nest statements and write compact
> programs. (This was already well implemented in C, but even better in Perl.)
> Now, here is a method that replies nothing - in certain circumstances. :-( I
> like nesting and conciseness. I suggest to reply the new value. It's no really
> new information at this point, of course, so someone may prefer the old one,
> but I personally think this would be less intuitive.

OK, it's on the TODO list, but I'm not feeling an urgent need to
implement it.  Perhaps I will implement it before v1.0...

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