Re^4: trouble taking reference of function

The argument to sin is in scalar context (it has a prototype of "_").

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Re^5: trouble taking reference of function by Lawliet (Curate) on Mar 03, 2009 at 22:36 UTC
Oh, so it returns the sine of the number of elements passed to the function, right? And you didn't even know bears could type.	[reply]
Re^6: trouble taking reference of function by kyle (Abbot) on Mar 03, 2009 at 22:42 UTC
You could say that, but I think it's more accurate to say that the function doesn't receive any more than one element. The array in `sin(@_)` is evaluated in a scalar context. Its value in that context is the number of elements in the array, and that single value is given to sin.	[reply] [d/l]