Re^3: Implicit split to @

Er are you sure:

perl -e 'my $sa = () = split //,"foo"; print $sa'
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perl -e 'my $sa = do {my @tmp = split //,"foo"}; print $sa'
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split() is outwitting us here - it sees the empty list and optimizes accordingly.

/J\

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Re^4: Implicit split to @_ by Anonymous Monk on Apr 15, 2005 at 15:12 UTC
`perl -e 'my $sa = () = split //,"foo",-1; print $sa'`	[reply] [d/l]