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On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 07:42:53 -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote: >Does a map in void context actually >happen? LOL! That would have been fun... No, void context is a special case for a scalar context, and map in a scalar context has a specific use: it returns the number of items the returned list would have had, had you not chosen to ignore it. (So it acts a bit like an array. -- Aw, who did that!) map() in a normal scalar context most certainly does happen, and by extrapolation, it does so for void context as well. -- Bart.Thread Previous | Thread Next