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in thread Map: Thou Has't Confounded Me For The Last Time! (Referring To The Array You Are Assigning To In Map)

For future reference, there is a good explanation in the perldocs. It's in perlfaq4, accessible directly via perldoc -q 'list and':

Found in /usr/share/perl/5.8/pod/perlfaq4.pod
       What is the difference between a list and an array?

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