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in reply to new keyword "size" to avoid scalar trap ? ( scalar @array != scalar(LIST) )

Do you even need prototypes?

use 5.010;

sub size { @_ + 0 }

say size 'a' .. 'z';

my @foo = (1, 2, 3);
say size @foo;

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perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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