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in thread [Updated] (localtime) versus localtime - round 1

Maybe I'm being obtuse, but I don't see the ambiguity.   :-(

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Re^5: (localtime) versus localtime - round 1
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 28, 2008 at 07:48 UTC

    Parentheses are not required to create a list. Their sole purpose here is to disambiguate between two legitimate parsings: "[" being the start of an index or the start of an array constructor.