in reply to list assignment in scalar context

voiding the warranty
Perhaps it's just a context problem, but at first glance I read that as "voiding the wantarray" :)

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Re: Re: list assignment in scalar context
by tilly (Archbishop) on Jan 13, 2004 at 20:04 UTC
    You can get either if you ignore the possible return. :-)
Re: Re: list assignment in scalar context
by antirice (Priest) on Jan 13, 2004 at 18:26 UTC

    Interesting you should mention that. I've been considering the idea of using wantarray to mean warranty in a perl poem for some time now. I guess it's too obvious. Oh well.

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