I'm not so sure about that. My recollection was that assignment determined it's context by the left-hand side of the operation. A quick test 

sub which
{ 
   if(wantarray)
   {
       print "list\n"; ();
   }
   else
   {
      "scalar\n"; 0;
   }
}

my $a = which();
my ($b) = which();

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seems to confirm this suspicion. The first prints scalar and the second prints list. This seems to imply that the subroutine is evaluated in scalar context in the first assignment.

Is there something I'm missing?

G. Wade

In reply to Re^10: chopping a string into slices - is there a more elegant way to do it? by gwadej
in thread chopping a string into slices - is there a more elegant way to do it? by rovf

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