print scalar(foo), ', ', $_, $/ for foo;

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I can't get that to work in any version of Perl I have here. It doesn't print anything at all in 5.6.0, and from 5.6.1 up to bleadperl, it prints: 

Use of uninitialized value in print at cl line 16.
Flintstone,

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: lvalue was introduced in 5.6.0, so trying older versions of Perl doesn't make sense.

However, if I change the line to 

print scalar(foo), ', ', $_, $/ for my @a = foo;

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I get the expected: 

Flintstone, Fred
Flintstone, Wilma
Flintstone, Pebbles

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It's the lvalue that messes up. Consider the reduced case: 

my @foo = qw /one two three/;
sub foo () : lvalue {@foo}

print for foo;
__END__
Use of uninitialized value in print at /tmp/bug line 9

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But removing the ': lvalue' prints the content of the array. I'll perlbug it.

Abigail

In reply to Re: More Lvalue Subs - Double-Barreled Closures by Abigail-II
in thread More Lvalue Subs - Double-Barreled Closures by Zaxo

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