But that make you do different things in scalar and list
context from the callers point of view. Here are two examples
where the caller does the same in scalar and list context.
First one returns an iterator that is context aware, in the
second example the function itself is a context aware
iterator.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
sub make_list {
my @list = @_;
my $count = 0;
sub {wantarray ? do {$count = 0; @list} : $list [$count ++]}
}
my $list = make_list qw /red green blue white brown purple/;
print scalar $list -> (), "\n";
print scalar $list -> (), "\n";
print join " " => $list -> (), "\n";
my @list = qw /one two three four five six/;
my $count = 0;
sub foo {
wantarray ? do {$count = 0; @list} : $list [$count ++]
}
print scalar foo, "\n";
print scalar foo, "\n";
print join " " => foo, "\n";
__END__
red
green
red green blue white brown purple
one
two
one two three four five six
Abigail
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