Actually I think your :sassign idea is implementable now using attributes. When you hit a sub with that attr you just need to whip it out and replace it with a sub that returns a tie which calls the original with the extra lvalue argument. Obviously you'd not be happy with the implementation but it would be worth doing just to be able to play with your sassign idea and see if you like it.

Yes, for the rare cases, it increases the number of calls. For the common cases, it can reduce the number of calls and complexity.
Increasing the number of calls is not just an efficiency issue, it's potentially a correctness issue, calling twice when previously we called once could do something nasty.

In reply to Re^9: Experimenting with Lvalue Subs (trade-offs) by fergal
in thread Experimenting with Lvalue Subs by Limbic~Region

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