<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Tye McQueen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tyemq@cpan.org">tyemq@cpan.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:52 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seasprocket@gmail.com" target="_blank">seasprocket@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
map evaluates BLOCK in LIST context</blockquote><div> </div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">But that's ugly -- is there a cleaner way to avoid this problem?<font color="#888888"><br>
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... map { scalar( ... ) } ...</blockquote><div><br>Okay, duh ... thanks for pointing that out.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>There are also lots of other ways to get scalar context. Speaking of bugs, I consider the fact that the following doesn't fix the problem (at least not in all versions of Perl) to be a Perl bug :)<br>
<br>... map { ( ... )[0] } ...</blockquote><div><br>I was wondering myself why assignment to something like @arr[0] invokes list context. Just a convention, or perhaps some deeper reason? Maybe it is to avoid ambiguities such as @arr[$x..$y] ?<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><font color="#888888"><br>Tye<br>
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