Re: Re: DWIM Part Nineteen: Unary Operators in Void Context

I think that what you want is called setf() in Common Lisp. Maybe this could give some implementation ideas?

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Re: Re: Re: DWIM Part Nineteen: Unary Operators in Void Context by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Aug 22, 2001 at 00:22 UTC
No, I think setf is just plain assignment. The "place" is not special to the "new value" expression. I wonder if the "higher level functions" features in Perl 6 can be used to create this. That would be a good test to see if the proposed feature set is powerful enough. —John	[reply]