Re^3: why doesn't "my ($a,$b)" return a list?

Yes, it is mentioned in the perlfunc manpage under keys and values. Strange that is not in perldelta.

Update: Link fixed.

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Re^4: why doesn't "my ($a,$b)" return a list? by LanX (Saint) on Aug 23, 2010 at 14:48 UTC
Thx! the necessity `use feature qw(:5.12);` isn't documented either. see feature could you plz check if it works without it? Cheers Rolf	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: why doesn't "my ($a,$b)" return a list? by kejohm (Hermit) on Aug 24, 2010 at 09:08 UTC
Yes, it does work without `use feature qw(:5.12);`, but you might want to keep it anyway just to show that the code requires v5.12, otherwise you might have problems trying to run code on older Perls.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: why doesn't "my ($a,$b)" return a list? by JavaFan (Canon) on Aug 24, 2010 at 12:08 UTC
That's what 'use 5.12' is for. That's preferred over 'use feature qw(:5.12)', as feature.pm didn't appear before 5.10, so if you run it on 5.8, you get an error complaining about a missing feature.pm, while if you have 'use 5.12', 5.8 understands this, and tells you 5.8 isn't a high enough version.	[reply]