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It's clear to me by this point that the word "list" has no real precise definition in perl, whereas the word "array" does.

But is there a difference between the terms "array context" and "list context", or are these terms used interchangably?

Ther perl function "wantarray" can distinguish between scalar and array contexts. If there is a difference between list and array context, I expect there should be an analogous way to distinguish these within code as well. Is there one?

FWIW, I did a meditation on context (scalar vs array) at Yet another List Versus Scalar Context Meditation.

In reply to Re: Differ. array and List by tphyahoo
in thread Differ. array and List by Anonymous Monk

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