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10387 context is See http://perl.plover.com/context.html. In a nutshell: When Perl evaluates an expression, it first looks to see whether a scalar, a list, or nothing (void) is expected as the return value, and the expression is evaluated accordingly. For example, in $x = foo(); @x = foo(); foo(); , foo() is evaluated respectively in scalar, list, and void context. See also the wantarray function in perlfunc. pink_mist <*:##NULL>
10386 context is See http://perl.plover.com/context.html. In a nutshell: When Perl evaluates an expression, it first looks to see whether a scalar, a list, or nothing (void) is expected as the return value, and the expression is evaluated accordingly. For example, in $a = foo(); @a = foo(); foo(); , foo() is evaluated respectively in scalar, list, and void context. See also the wantarray function in perlfunc. pink_mist <*:##NULL>
9877 context is See http://perl.plover.com/context.html. In a nutshell: When Perl evaluates an expression, it first looks to see whether a scalar, a list, or nothing (void) is expected as the return value, and the expression is evaluated accordingly. For example, in $a = foo(); @a = foo(); foo(); , foo() is evaluated respectively in scalar, list, and void context. See also the wantarray function in perlfunc. lucs <*:##NULL>
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