Not having used wantarray before, I looked it up in the docs. It says:

Returns true if the context of the currently executing subroutine is looking for a list value.

Does that mean the context where the wantarray is, or where the function call is?

If it's where wantarray is, print provides the list context, doesn't it?

If it's where the function is called as a hash value, couldn't you're example just as easily be (1, $a), instead of (1, @a)?

Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe you're saying (1, @a) because the last statement in blah() is a print statment and providing list context?

Just trying to wrap my mind completely around this, too.

TheEnigma

In reply to Re^2: wantarray - surprise behaviour by TheEnigma
in thread wantarray - surprise behaviour by shemp

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