>>>>> "Tor" == Tor Hildrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tor> Could someone please explain what is happening here?
In older versions of Perl, qw(STRING) was implemented as a runtime
split(" ", STRING,) and inherited the scalar property of split(),
including the annoying warning under -w about the deprecated split
into @_.
In modern versions of Perl, the splitting happens at compile time, and
now acts like a comma-list, returning either a list in a list context,
or the last element of a list in a scalar context.
I think the break was Perl 5.6, or maybe 5.5.
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