Re^6: Line numbers

So you exchange parens for square brackets and add an arrow instead. Sorry, but you really haven't proven your point. They are both non-obvious until you understand how Perl handles precedence and lists. caller(0)[0] fails because you are trying to index a scalar, not a list.

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Re^7: Line numbers by LanX (Saint) on Mar 17, 2012 at 01:57 UTC
> fails because you are trying to index a scalar No,it fails because it's undefined syntax `syntax error ... near ")["` and indexing a list always requires parens! see perldata `A list value may also be subscripted like a normal array. You must +put the list in parentheses to avoid ambiguity.` [download] Cheers Rolf	[reply] [d/l] [select]