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On Tue Jul 22 12:18:59 2014, demerphq wrote:
> On 22 July 2014 21:14, Eric Brine <ikegami@adaelis.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:08 PM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The part I consider the most serious bug is that srand(()) or sleep(())
> >> are treated the same as srand(undef) or sleep(undef). That is an empty
> >> list, it should not be treated as a value.
> >>
> >
> > >perl -E"say prototype 'CORE::sleep'"
> > ;$
> >
> > It's Perl's stupid prototypes. ($) means "one argument evaluated in scalar
> > context", so (;$) means "no arguments or one evaluated in scalar context".
> >
> > >perl -E"sub x(;$) { say 0+@_; } x(());"
> > 1
> >
> > A stub in scalar context is undef.
> >
> > >perl -MDevel::Peek -e"$x = (); Dump($x);"
> > SV = NULL(0x0) at 0x229240
> > REFCNT = 1
> > FLAGS = ()
> >
> >
> Interesting. Thanks. That does make sense, in a sad way.
I see no other way for this to work. Can we close this as not-a-bug?
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Father Chrysostomos
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