Re^4: A question about method return values and error checking (=>)

Well, the Perl 5 implementation of => has that problem. I recall discussions of enforcing scalar context when => was still fairly new, but it was already too late. Then Perl 6 made it so.

And the problems with return; from a sub that otherwise returns a single scalar go way beyond just uses of =>, of course.

- tye

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Re^5: A question about method return values and error checking (=>) by LanX (Saint) on Nov 09, 2015 at 18:52 UTC
> go way beyond just uses of =>, of course. Well I had the Stop Using Perl discussion in mind. Using fat-comma + sub-call has unpredictable consequences, mainly b/c people are led to the misinterpretation that `=>` is pairing two values like e.g. `:` is doing in JS. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply] [d/l] [select]