>> It also doesn't flatten its argument list.

> I don't see how you could pass something that could be flattened.

hmm  my (@a,$b,%h) behaves like a function with infinte prototype

sub my (\[@$%];\[@$%]\[@$%]\[@$%]\[@$%]\[@$%]\[@$%]\[@$%]\[@$%]\[@$%] and so on )

which avoids flattening.

OTOH the lvalue character can't be simulated for more than one value.

> > Well, my behaves different in several aspect to other buildins.

> A lot of builtins have unique parsing rules. (print, map, sort, system, our, ...) And?

The "And" is: If parsing rules are different, so why not the behaviour in scalar context, too?

Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re^6: why doesn't "my ($a,$b)" return a list? by LanX
in thread why doesn't "my ($a,$b)" return a list? by LanX

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