in reply to Spotting an empty array as argument

Hello Chuma,

> how can I distinguish between the two cases – no argument, or an empty array?

I bet you cant, because in a sub you receive arguments into @_ and no arguments is/means an empty array.

Outside a sub it will be another story..

L*

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