At 03:05 AM 7/29/2008, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:01:16AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: > > 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? [Returns count] Yes. Please. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com/ http://www.perlmedic.com/Thread Previous | Thread Next