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From: nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: push bug?
Message-ID: <25B79222.26745@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 90 22:18:09 GMT
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lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:

>I don't think ?: should be allowed as an lvalue.  If you really want
>to do something like that, you could use the * aliasing mechanism to say

>	local(*tmp) = $hdrval{$CTL} eq "" ? *ngrps : *ygrps;
>	push(@tmp,$grp);

>Admittedly, not as concise.  But then, I don't allow

>	($maybe ? $foo : $bar) = 1234;

>either.

OK, I guess I just viewed push as a function of sorts and I was just
selecting a parameter.  From what you say, it is really an
operator.  I can live with that.

Mark
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