Re: •Re: Re: Perl Syntax that we generally don't know or forget.

Like this?. Or is there something I'm missing here..

sub  attack :lvalue {
  substr($_[0], 2, 1) ;
}
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Re: Re: •Re: Re: Perl Syntax that we generally don't know or forget. by ysth (Canon) on Jan 19, 2004 at 02:12 UTC
That is supposed to work, but currently has some problems (see perl bug #24200) if you call attack in an rvalue context after calling it in an lvalue context.	[reply]