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On Fri, July 10, 2009 8:23 am, Ben Morrow wrote: > Since it took me a minute or two to remember why $count = () = split > doesn't work, I'd be in favour of fixing that as well. The only occasion > where someone might be assigning a split to a (literal) empty list is as > part of this idiom. $count = () = split(/PATTERN/, EXPR) doesn't work, but $count = () = split(/PATTERN/, EXPR, -1) does. A different default limit when assigning to a list is already an exception; I'd rather not add an exception to the exception when the list is empty.Thread Previous | Thread Next