Perl gives the warning: Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated when used in the following code: 
print scalar((split('', "I am a string"))) . "\n";

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Obviously, I am not making use of @_ in this split. Is perl warning because I am not assigning the return value of the split to an array? Because if I do this: 
my @chars = split '', "I am a string";
my $num = scalar(@chars);
print $num . "\n";

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It does not warn. I am not really worried about the warning because the output ('13' in this case) is correct. I was just wondering if this is a bug, or if this is by design. And, if it is by design, why? Or, perhaps somewhere in the parsing, perl becomes confused with the scalar call on the returned array of split. I don't know. I am just wondering. I have tried this on both perl v5.6.1 for i686-linux and ActiveState perl v5.6.0 binary build 623 and received the same warning.

Jeremy

In reply to Mistakenly Believing split is using @_ by enoch

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