Re: RFC 231 (v1) Data: Multi-dimensional arrays/hashes and slices

[email protected] ("Jeremy Howard") Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:52:51 +1100

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.data
Message-ID	<001c01c024e7$d8a80830$0100a8c0@jeremy>

Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> > > Moveover,
> > >
> > >   $x = 3 * @_;
> > >
> > > suddently being equivalent to
> > >
> > >   $x = @_;
> > >
> > > does not look very promising...

Why are these equivalent? RFC 82 only applies in list context. Am I missing
something?