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Re: [perl #100364] exit doesn't match its documentation

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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
September 29, 2011 08:33
Subject:
Re: [perl #100364] exit doesn't match its documentation
Message ID:
20705.1317310397@chthon
Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote
   on Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:12:30 BST: 

>Tom Christiansen wrote:
>>    % perl -le 'sub trick { return (3+5)*8 } print trick()'
>>    64
>>
>>It is parsed completely differently!!

>Because it's a list function, because you can return a list.

Ahem:

    % perl -le 'print reverse (6+10)*8'
    488

--tom

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