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From:

Dave Mitchell

Date:

October 21, 2003 07:17

Subject:

Re: [perl #24250] "return" required in some anonymous closures

Message ID:

20031021141727.GD7867@fdgroup.com

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:51:32PM +0100, Robin Barker wrote:
> I found the follow bug today, I think it may be related to this one.
> 
> % perl5.8.1 -lwe 'sub a {} print main->a'
> main
> % perl5.8.0 -lwe 'sub a {} print main->a'
> 
> % perl5.8.1 -lwe 'sub a {return} print main->a'
> 
> % perl5.8.0 -lwe 'sub a {return} print main->a'
> 
> 
> So when the method is empty rather than {return} in perl5.8.1 the object
> is returned.

more accturately, @_ is returned:

$perl5.8.1 -lwe 'sub a {}; print a(3,4,5)'
345



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