Conserving memory - was SPUG: Fw: greetings

[Jason Lamport]

At 2:30 PM -0700 10/20/01, Tim Maher/CONSULTIX wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 02:18:05PM -0700, Ken Clarke wrote:
>>  Hi Folks,
>>
>>      I love picking up efficiency tips like the one at the bottom.  Which
>>  context does print use?
>
>print, like all functions (and subroutines), provides the LIST
>context to its arguments.

I thought some functions provided scalar context (for example those 
declared with a prototype of ($)):

sub wants_scalar($) {
	...
}

Or am I misunderstanding what the function prototype mechanism does in Perl?

-jason

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