I generally point out these kinds of anomalies so that someone else will do the hard work of correcting them. Thus, "hate" is the last thing I feel if this odd behaviour is fixed. ;-) My only concern is that the the construct will remain correct and DWIMmy in places where it reasonably ought to work. For example, my (limited) understanding of the patch is that it won't break: my @array = qw(a b c); If it *did* break that, I would be unhappy. DamianThread Previous | Thread Next