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Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com> writes: > >But it certainly ought to be documented. Patch attached. > > I like to see it documented as an error. Okay, I'll bite. This assumes the previous patch is _not_ applied. --- pod/perldelta.pod Sun Mar 19 16:59:50 2000 +++ new/pod/perldelta.pod Sun Mar 19 18:50:48 2000 @@ -2686,6 +2686,18 @@ the h2ph utility coming with Perl, and that is rather rarely needed these days. +=head2 Arrow operator and arrays + +When the left argument to the arrow operator C<< -> >> is an array, or +the C<scalar> operator operating on an array, the result of the +operation must be considered erroneous. For example: + + @x->[2] + scalar(@x)->[2] + +These expressions will get run-time errors in some future release of +Perl. + =head2 Many features still experimental As discussed above, many features are still experimental. Interfaces and End of patch -- Johan