Re: Re: Re: Re: First char out of a string & surprises with errors on chop reverse $string (that doesn't work!)

Definite agreement... reverse $foo = "merlyn"; makes little to no sense. However, chop reverse $foo; does seem relatively reasonable... (though I see how it quickly goes to hell in a handbasket.) I remember when in my Data Structures in C++ class they tried explaining the reason to overload some operators as lvalues, and some not... it always seemed like you could *find* a scenario where you may want that functionality (though I doubt 2 + 2 = $foo; would ever be a good one :) Well... thanks to everyone for the answers! I am going to agree that it really makes very little sense to let reverse return an lvalue... though I think the obfuscation "value" alone may warrant it :)

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: First char out of a string & surprises with errors on chop reverse $string (that doesn't work!) by Juerd (Abbot) on Dec 26, 2001 at 22:08 UTC
though I doubt `2 + 2 = $foo;` would ever be a good one :) "2 + 2 equals $foo, for certain values of 2"... hmmm... No, really, i think `2 + $bar = 3` would be a nice way to write `$bar = 1`, but _very_ hard to make. `2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas' Segmentation fault 2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]