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Are you kidding? Mathematical expansion like that would kick ass.

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Re: Re: Re: late binding behavior in hash definition
by Dominus (Parson) on Nov 22, 2000 at 21:29 UTC
    I'm not kidding. Some languages have something a little like that. But you quickly get into big problems. Consider: 
        my $x = not $x;
    my $y = $y-1;

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    or 
        my @a = (@a, 3);

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    for example.
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