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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:05:27AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 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?
That would be quite useful, IMO, as the following secret operator doesn't
work for split:
$words +=()= split;
It's one of the few places where perl incorrectly outsmarts the programmer.
Abigail
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