Re^2: Strange behaviour with Arrays and print?

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But in the spirit of your example code, the compiler might proceed something like:
Source "@a\n"
Becomes "@a" . "\n"
Becomes join($", @a) . "\n"
Becomes "10 20 30" . "\n"
Becomes "10 20 30\n"
with join($", @a) (or its runtime equivalent) still providing list context to the array.

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Re^3: Strange behaviour with Arrays and print? by Anonymous Monk on Jul 12, 2014 at 14:31 UTC
You're right, of course. Also, it appears that Perl has different overloads for for string concatenation and stringification. Interesting... I never knew that.	[reply]

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