Re (tilly) 5: Bug with lists?

This has been posted to p5p in the past. See here. FWIW I was said user, and that was less than 6 months after I started learning Perl.

IMHO the best possible documentation is to firmly get down Perl's idea of what a list is versus what a scalar is. If you understand what a list is, then it is obvious that ,, shouldn't insert an undef. If you don't, particularly if you are translating some VB code that uses commas as placeholders...

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Re: Re (tilly) 5: Bug with lists? by demerphq (Chancellor) on Feb 19, 2002 at 09:11 UTC
Well, its nice to know im in good company. /ducks ;-) Its true what you say about list context. And to be honest prior to this I would have said that I _did_ grok it. But it appears I am wrong. The fact that this wasn't docmented under perlop (which as Ive been harping about is where I would have expected this behaviour to be documented) is what threw me. Anyway, this is a lesson that won't be forgotten any time soon, if at all. :-) Yves / DeMerphq -- When to use Prototypes?	[reply]

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Re: Re (tilly) 5: Bug with lists?
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Feb 19, 2002 at 09:11 UTC

Its true what you say about list context. And to be honest prior to this I would have said that I _did_ grok it. But it appears I am wrong. The fact that this wasn't docmented under perlop (which as Ive been harping about is where I would have expected this behaviour to be documented) is what threw me.

Anyway, this is a lesson that won't be forgotten any time soon, if at all. :-)

Yves / DeMerphq
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