Re: Using ternary operator as lvalue in push

push is effectively prototyped, so it needs to see that array sigil on its first operand.

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Re^2: Using ternary operator as lvalue in push by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 31, 2007 at 16:50 UTC
Is it done this way to allow the prototype to be checked at compile time? `>perl -c -e"sub t(\@) { @{$_[0]} = '!' } t($c?@a:@b); print @b; Type of arg 1 to main::t must be array (not null operation) at -e line + 1, near "@b)" -e had compilation errors.` [download]	[reply] [d/l]