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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:01:16AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:59:24 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote: > > or even better > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl -n > > next if /^=for\s+(index|later)/; > > $chars += length; > > $words += split; > > Aha. So I am not the only one with a use for split() in scalar context. > So can we please eliminate the annoying warning > > Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated > > that it generates (when you enable warnings, which Tom didn't)? Why it > ever split to @_ I don't know and don't want to, but this has been > deprecated roughly forever and surely it is time to move to the > post-deprecation phase of removal. By which you mean remove the assignment to @_, and the warning, but keep the behaviour demonstrated above working? Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next