Re: RFC 118 (v1) lvalue subs: parameters, explicit assignment, and wantarray() changes

[email protected] (Graham Barr) Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:35:30 +0100
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.subs
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:25:42AM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> As Graham pointed out, is an lvalue sub supposed to act like a tie or
> like a variable.

Both.

As Damian points out the lvalue sub must return something that can
be used as an lvalue. Normal assignment hen happens.

So the result will be the same as assigning to a variable, if that
variable is tied it can change the resutl value of the assign.

Graham.