Re: Please make "last" work in "grep"

[Damian Conway]

   > > Because you might have a wantarray situation that expects no values?
   > > 
   > >  () = whateveryouwant();
   > 
   > I am sure that situation is handled by the 'want' RFC.

Yep. The most recent version is at:

        http://www.yetanother.org/damian/Perl5+i/want.html

   > I have not read it recently, but I suspect in this case
   > want('LIST') would return that magical "0 but true" or something
   > similar.

No. It provides this information as (want)[1] or want->{COUNT}.
But more frequently, the programmer herself would provide the information:

        if (want 3) {...}

Damian