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Thanks. It makes sense. But, what does the 'scalar' do in that case then?

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Re^3: Creating 'new' subroutine.
by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Oct 17, 2013 at 04:56 UTC

    In that case it is superfluous as @_ is already in scalar context.

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