On Sun, 30 Sep 2018, Karl Williamson wrote: > perlre has been updated since 5.28.0 to make clearer the acceptable behavior > of a run. Hopefully, if you had read it, you wouldn't have thought it was a > misunderstanding: > > https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/4a1d964056983f26f5646fdb7aadb4b5e7b5235f Many thanks, Karl. That confirms what I had (finally :-) deduced myself, and is admirably clear. Regards, Philip -- Philip HazelThread Previous