in reply to Re^5: There's scalar(), but no list(). Perl could need one for rare but reasonable use ("list")
in thread There's scalar(), but no list(). Perl could need one for rare but reasonable use

Thanks a lot for this approach to get the terminology right and to distinguish between "literal list" (notation) and "list assign" ( like returning multiple values on the stack).

Would help a lot if we could clean up terminology.

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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