<div>Here's a reference to the change in the 5.14.0 perl delta: <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.14.0/pod/perldelta.pod#Use_of_qw(...)_as_parentheses">http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.14.0/pod/perldelta.pod#Use_of_qw(...)_as_parentheses</a></div>
<div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Andrew Pam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@sericyb.com.au">andrew@sericyb.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 29/11/11 23:29, Tim Connors wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/rurban/2010/09/qw-in-list-context-deprecated.html" target="_blank">http://blogs.perl.org/users/rurban/2010/09/qw-in-list-context-deprecated.html</a><br>
><br>
> Does anyone know whether this was completely arbitrary, or whether there<br>
> was good logic behind this change?<br>
<br>
</div>Explained quite well in the comments, I thought?<br>
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Andrew<br>
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