in reply to Re: Surprise: scalar(($x, $y) = split)
in thread Surprise: scalar(($x, $y) = split)

Adding to the confusion? 

$ perl -e 'warn 0+(($x, $y) = split/ /, "foo bar\n");'
2 at -e line 1.
$ perl -e 'warn 0+(($x, $y) = split$", "foo bar\n");'
2 at -e line 1.

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