Re^5: Maintaining context of the caller

It does if you realise that that is what is happening in the context of a conditional. From OP's parenthetical comment it is fairly clear that this particular subtlety of Perl (and Perl has a lot of them) had escaped OP.

I thought it worth making clear that there is no syntactic sugar that will allow OP to select a list or scalar context at run time for the call by using the conditional operator in that particular fashion.

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

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Re^6: Maintaining context of the caller by revdiablo (Prior) on Jul 04, 2005 at 23:18 UTC
it is fairly clear that this particular subtlety of Perl (and Perl has a lot of them) had escaped OP Indeed, that's true. I included the parenthetical remark to head off any suggestions that the problem was caused by precedence. Since I had ruled that out, I obviously didn't think that was the problem, but I didn't investigate enough to find out what it was. I just assumed it was something Perl wouldn't allow. Your quoted snippet cleared up the exact reason, and I appreciate it.	[reply]

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Re^6: Maintaining context of the caller
by revdiablo (Prior) on Jul 04, 2005 at 23:18 UTC

it is fairly clear that this particular subtlety of Perl (and Perl has a lot of them) had escaped OP

Indeed, that's true. I included the parenthetical remark to head off any suggestions that the problem was caused by precedence. Since I had ruled that out, I obviously didn't think that was the problem, but I didn't investigate enough to find out what it was. I just assumed it was something Perl wouldn't allow. Your quoted snippet cleared up the exact reason, and I appreciate it.

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