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

[email protected] ((Johan Vromans)) 17 Aug 2000 22:38:26 +0200
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.subs
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Damian Conway <[email protected]> writes:

> The point of an lvalue subroutine is not to make assignment to the
> return value work, it is to make the return value an *lvalue*.
> That's a much more general thing, because it allows every other type
> of modification to work too.

Exactly!

-- Johan