Thanks,
tye and
tilly, for putting my attempt
in the context of the larger discussion. (I
did
search around for precedent posts
to cite but got only looong lists
of hits that seemed to be about other issues.)
Tilly,
I am particularly struck by the following, cribbed
and expanded upon from your post:
sub ret_array { return @_; }
sub ret_list { return @_[0..$#_]; }
my @array = ('a','b','c');
print scalar ret_array('a','b','c'); # 3
print scalar ret_array(@array); # 3
print scalar ret_list('a','b','c'); # c
print scalar ret_list(@array); # c
