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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl Lint?
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Date: 18 Dec 90 05:50:45 GMT
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From the keyboard of worley@compass.com:
:   You'd have to construct the entire call graph.  Probably not worth
:   it, given that () in a scalar context Does the Right Thing anyway.
:OK, Larry, clue me in -- what does () in a scalar context do?  It's
:not in the manual.

Empirical evidence suggests that it returns a null, except
that it's of the undefined, not the defined flavor.  

--tom
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Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
"With a kernel dive, all things are possible, but it sure makes it hard
 to look at yourself in the mirror the next morning."  -me