Assigning anonymous hash to a list
Paul Makepeace
paulm at paulm.com
Wed Jul 31 19:02:32 BST 2013
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:04:11PM -0300, Hernan Lopes top-posted:
> > it should be the same size to do what he wants... otherwise it wont work.
>
> Why "should"? Perl doesn't require the LHS of an array assignment have the
> same
> number of elements as the RHS, and there are a number of use cases where
> you
> may not want it.
>
Indeed. E.g.,
my ($arg1, $arg2, $..., @...) = @_; # is covered early on in a perl
neophyte's training
Paul
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