[comp.lang.perl] array chop

jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) (01/31/91)

Is "chop (@b = @a)" supposed to work?

	Johan
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lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (02/06/91)

In article <1991Jan30.224606.28089@pronto.mh.nl> Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl> writes:
: Is "chop (@b = @a)" supposed to work?

I would think so, but I had chop grandfathered not to work on array
assignments, for some reason that I can't recall.  I'm going to re-enable
it in 4.0 beta and see what breaks.

Larry