in reply to Re^9: Passing argument by reference (for a scalar)(Unary Plus)
in thread Passing argument by reference (for a scalar)

Granted, in this case you are right. ++

And I hate this ambiguity, because the parser can't defer parsing the inside of the block till it sees if a comma is following or not

Cheers Rolf
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