Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: (@array = length) considered harmful
Message-ID: <15232@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 5 Mar 90 16:31:03 GMT
References: <15230@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <15230@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>And I cannot figure out how to return a list as the value of a
>function anymore.  Urrgh.

I retract this -- returning lists DOES work, I was just less careful
than I should have been to form array contexts in passing them around.

I still think PL12 creates a new 'most common novice bug' situation
in the language, but at least it works as advertised.