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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: <HANDLE> = @array?
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Date: 23 Feb 90 00:16:17 GMT
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In article <15193@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>You can do this now with print and foreach or join, but the symmetry
>would still be nice.

You don't need foreach or join; this does it:

	print FILE @array;

but I agree that the symmetry is esthetically appealing to have <FILE> be 
an lvalue.  I just don't think it's particularly neccesary, just as

	@array += 3;

is nice (and I don't even know APL :-) but also unnecessary since you
can always use:

	grep($_ += 3, @array);

--tom
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