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in thread Is silent use of $_ for empty argument lists reasonable for "shortcut" functions?

Test 1 is fine. $_ shouldn't be modified in that case. (Not void context.)

Test 2 is the one that fails. It doesn't print == 1234  ==1234== as it should.

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