in reply to Problem with inheritance

I did not know that @a = "FOO"; and @a = ("FOO"); were equivalent! What a country.

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Re^2: Problem with inheritance
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 24, 2007 at 21:07 UTC

    Parens are usually used because "=" has higher precedence than ",". 

    >perl -MO=Deparse,-p -e "@a = 1, 2"
((@a = 1), '???');
-e syntax OK

>perl -MO=Deparse,-p -e "@a = (1, 2)"
(@a = (1, 2));
-e syntax OK

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    ('???' is the 2 in void context being optimized away.)

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Re^2: Problem with inheritance
by kevinp (Novice) on Oct 24, 2007 at 21:05 UTC
    Thanks - Changed to UserAgent now everything works.
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