Re: Perl 5.6 question

[mjd-perl-pm@plover.com]

> Perl 5.6 question: Why would you want to use an lvalue sub?

Suppose you have an object, $car.  $car has a piece of member data
called `color'.

        $the_color = $car->color();

This gets the car's color.

        $car->color() = 'blue';

This sets the car's color to blue.  Ooops, no it doesn't, unless you
have perl 5.6.0 and you said that the `color' function was :lvalue.
Otherwise, it's just a syntax error.

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