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Re: lvalueble subs (Score:1, Interesting)

by grantm (164) on 2000.05.28 19:34 (#207) Homepage Journal

I may be completely wrong on this but one target audience for this feature is probably people doing Win32 COM/OLE Automation from Perl.

Under VB (which is often used for code samples in COM documentation) the lines between methods and properties are really blurred. So being able to call a method to get a property value and then assign to the method to update the property might be convenient.

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