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G'day David / P5P,
david nicol wrote:
>>Eh? what would wantarray return a ref to in
>>
>> sub f { wantarray() ... }
>> ($a, $b, @c) = f();
>
> an array of aliases to $a, $b, and $c:
>
> [${\$a},${\$b},${\$c}]
So what do we do in the case of:
print f();
wantarray() should clearly by true, but there are no variables that we
can alias.
This could be worked around by creating an alias to a transient
anonymous variable, which is then passed to print upon completion.
However I'm not sure if we can do that without losing performance.
Cheerio,
Paul
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