You can't expect to tell the difference between the size of an array (such as '3'), and a plain old number (such as '3').

Again: I can tell the difference between scalar and an array, but just not for constants.

You're still missing the point ... I marked it for you, to make it clearer:

  DB<4> sub tst (\[$@]) { print ref $_[0] }
  
  DB<5> $a="a";@a=(1..3)
  
  DB<6> tst $a
SCALAR
  DB<7> tst @a
ARRAY
  DB<8> tst "a"   # <--------- that's the point !
Type of arg 1 to main::tst must be one of [$@] (not constant item) at 
+(eval 12)[/usr/share/perl/5.10/perl5db.pl:638] line 2, at EOF

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Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re^6: Prototype for constant items??? by LanX
in thread Prototype for constant items??? by LanX

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