http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=7592 Looking over the messages in this thread, I decided that the following patch was necessary to close this bug. Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with AMIGA-DOS The gun works pretty well, except that few people use one and it's impossible to find bullets. --- perl-current.orig/pod/perlop.pod Mon Mar 17 20:40:36 2003 +++ perl-current/pod/perlop.pod Mon Apr 28 09:52:32 2003 @@ -1178,7 +1178,8 @@ split(' ', q/STRING/); -the difference being that it generates a real list at compile time. So +the differences being that it generates a real list at compile time, and +in scalar context it returns the last element in the list. So this expression: qw(foo bar baz)Thread Next