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Sat Sep 10 06:09:38 2011
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:09:04 -0700 (PDT)
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Perl-Users Digest Sat, 10 Sep 2011 Volume: 11 Number: 3495
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Re: What to return in scalar context ? <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:37:25 +0000 (UTC)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
Subject: Re: What to return in scalar context ?
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On 2011-09-09, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
>Ilya> I suspect the return value of sort() in scalar context was discussed
>Ilya> many times on p5p after that "cut-off". The current situation has very
>Ilya> little to do with Larry's decisions (although the end result may
>Ilya> coincide with what it was in Perl 4).
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> Agreed, but that's only because there wasn't any strong consensus,
IIRC, there was a strong consensus to keep it as it is ;-).
> and I bet if anyone really cared, Larry would still have been
> consulted.
This is not how it was happening on p5p when I was watching...
Yours,
Ilya
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