SPUG: interesting while() behavior and hosting recs

[John W. Krahn]

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:46:36AM -0700, Tim Maher wrote:
> 
>>As a case in point, I offer the widespread notion that parens
>>function as "list constructors" in expressions like
>>"@array=(1,2)" and "print (1,2)", which is tremendously useful,
>>despite being less than a perfectly accurate representation of
>>how those expressions are actually parsed and evaluated, IIRC.
>>(What's the real story? Is it that the comma operator in list
>>context returns all the expressions, so the parens are just there
>>for reasons of precedence in the case of an assignment?)
> 
> They are just there for reasons of precedence.  Parens really really
> really truly don't function as list constructors.

So in the expressions:

while ( () ) { print "this won't print\n" }

$count = () = $string =~ /\d+/g;

You are saying that there is no list?



John
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