Re: RFC - Interpolation of method calls

[email protected] ("David L. Nicol") Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:24:39 -0500

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.objects
Organization	University of Missouri - Kansas City supercomputing infrastructure
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> The only decision, then, is to decide which context to use; if it deparses
> to concatenation then it seems logical to use scalar context.  This also
> makes sense in that you can force list context with @{[ $weather->temp ]} if
> you really wanted it.

$ perl -le 'sub w{wantarray?"WA":"WS"};print " attempt: ${\scalar(w)}"'
 attempt: WS


Maybe we just need a shorter synonym for C<scalar>?