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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Are only simple scalars allowed in "do SUBROUTINE (LIST)" ?
Message-ID: <15236@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 7 Mar 90 02:48:01 GMT
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In article <7294@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>Would you settle for this?
>
>	( LIST ) [ EXPR ]

Definitely, absolutely, this would be great!!

Slicing self-defining lists would be a subtle and powerful technique if
implemented.  And it's an elegant fit in the Perl model.