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in thread Context aware functions - best practices?

That's obviously a list-context function, and you don't expect it to do anything useful at all in scalar context.

You make a good point here. Some functions just shouldn't be expected to do anything useful in scalar context. A nice idiom for writing such functions is to start them with wantarray or return undef.

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Re^5: Context aware functions - best practices?
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 15, 2003 at 23:55 UTC
    Or maybe just return unless wantarray; because return is smart enough to provide undef by itself in scalar context. :)

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