in reply to Re: Conditinal array initialisation?
in thread Conditional array initialisation?

That it doesn't work is clear.

But, the semantics seem very clear, and the implementation trivial (roughly, without the need for copying):

undef @a; @a = @a ? @a : (1..3); say @a;;
1 2 3

@a =  (4..6); @a = @a ? @a : (1..3); say @a;;
4 5 6

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So I wondered why it isn't implemented so?

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