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a warning I'd like to see

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From:
David Nicol
Date:
January 24, 2008 15:45
Subject:
a warning I'd like to see
Message ID:
934f64a20801241545u724d18cfpba26009ea54e34af@mail.gmail.com
alert me when I give map an arrayref instead of an array

$ perl -le 'use warnings; print join "|", map {$_ + 2} [ 1..6 ]'
268504834


this happened to me today, as a function was returning an arrayref and
I forgot to wrap it in @{...} before feeding it to map.



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