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in reply to Re: Are prototypes evil?
in thread Are prototypes evil?

I think you're mixing up two things:
A ($) prototype would force scalar input to a sub, but that doesn't have any influence on the return context.
Look at this:

sub Input ($) { wantarray ? split /,/ : $_; } my @List = Input $Source;

~Django
"Why don't we ever challenge the spherical earth theory?"

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Re: Re: Re: Are prototypes evil?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 02, 2002 at 22:15 UTC

    Your right! I was talking twaddle!