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[Scott Penrose]

Hey Dudes,

Try the following bit of code...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $fred = 'a b c d';

for (my $i = scalar(split(/ /, $fred)); $i > 0; $i--) {
         print $i . "\n";
}


You get the following warning

"Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated at ... line 6."

Now I don't understand.

The following code

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $fred = 'a b c d';

foreach my $x (split(/ /, $fred)) {
         print $x . "\n";
}


Produces no warnings.

Calling a method like split, should just return a list. That list can 
be used inside methods.

So I though maybe it is coz we are calling a sub (eg: scalar)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $fred = 'a b c d';

x(split(/ /, $fred));
exit 0;

sub x {
         my @list = @_;
         print join("\n", @list) . "\n";
}

Nope, this code has no errors either.

Is it

a) A bug (5.6 and 5.8 do the same thing)

b) Something special about 'scalar'

Scott

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