Re: partial assignment using lvalue?

[email protected] ((Johan Vromans)) 30 Aug 2000 17:03:04 +0200
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.subs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Kenneth Lee <[email protected]> writes:

> it seems all the "lvalue sub" RFCs haven't mentioned this.
> currently we can do
> 
>   $str = "foo bar";
>   substr($str, 4, 0) = "baz ";
> 
> and $str will become "foo baz bar". should we be able to do 
> this with lvalue-subs? how can one returns "pointer" to a 
> portion of a scalar?

This is exactly what RFC 132 addresses. 

-- Johan