Rafael applied my documentation patch yesterday:
-Returns each element so deleted or the undefined value if there was n
+o such
-element. Deleting from C<$ENV{}> modifies the environment. Deleting
+ from
+Returns a list with the same number of elements as the number of elem
+ents
+for which deletion was B<attempted>. Each element of that list consi
+sts of
+either the value of the element deleted, or the undefined value. In
+scalar
+context, this means that you get the value of the last element delete
+d (or
+the undefined value if that element did not exist).
+
+ %HASH = (foo => 11, bar => 22, baz => 33);
+ $scalar = delete $HASH{foo}; # $scalar is 11
+ $scalar = delete @HASH{qw(foo bar)}; # $scalar is 22
+ @array = delete @HASH{qw(foo bar baz)} # @array is (undef,undef
+,33)
+
+Deleting from C<$ENV{}> modifies the environment. Deleting from
a hash tied to a DBM file deletes the entry from the DBM file. Delet
+ing
from a C<tie>d hash or array may not necessarily return anything.
Liz
