tadman: You've asked for a scalar, but you're getting a list.

Ah, not so! You've ask for a scalar, but you're getting an array! If you had done:

sub foo ($) { ... }

@a = (1,10,100);
foo(@a);        # no error, '3' is passed to foo()
foo(1,10,100);  # error, too many args
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you'd have seen. Arrays and lists are not the same thing.

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