*sigh* You indeed seem to be correct. Removing the offendinf return solves the beast . . . unfortunately it means that lvalue subs probably will not solve my problem (unless I jump through alot of hoops to guarentee a single exit point for the sub . . .hmmmm . . . )

tadman++ (as soon as votes recycle)

Cheers,
Erik

ps - Where is this documented? I thought I read the docs pretty thoroughly on this, but I could be embaressingly mistaken.

In reply to Re: Re: lvalue subs return undef, playing with experimental features, the End of the World, etc by erikharrison
in thread lvalue subs return undef, playing with experimental features, the End of the World, etc by erikharrison

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