SPUG: Shouldn't this work?

[ced at carios2.ca.boeing.com]

> The qw operator creates an array, not an arrayref. The qw operator is
>  magical in that you can use a delimiter that is part of an open/close
>  pair, like {}, [], (), or a 'unary' delimiter, like $$, %%, ##, //, ||,
>  whatever. They all mean the same thing.

Just an slight term clarification (to remind myself mostly) but 
"array" may be a confusing word in this context. 

The qw operator creates a list rather than an actual Perl array. 
In other words, if an actual array had been created the $aref below 
would have been an array in scalar context and $aref would be 4 and 
there wouldn't have been a -w warning. 

Instead, the original:   my $aref = qw[one two three four]; 
is equivalent to:        my $aref = ("one","two","three","four");

$aref now becomes "four" and you see the warnings:

  "Useless use of a constant in void context"

because the initial list members are just being discarded by by
the comma operator.  

Rgds,
--
Charles DeRykus

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