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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Perl Lint?
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Date: 18 Dec 90 00:34:38 GMT
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   X-Name: Larry Wall

   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.

Dale

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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