On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 08:00:00PM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: : Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > : First, context of hash slices: : > : Hash slices with {} notation are trivially either scalars or lists: : > : $h{'foo'} = want(); # Scalar : > : $h{'foo','bar'} = want(); # List : > : > Right. : : Tangentially, that makes me wonder: is there a difference between : scalar context and one-element array context?
Certainly, same distinction as Perl 5 makes. The only difference is that Perl 6 can evaluate a list lazily, so it might not actually have to generate the entire list if you only want the first value. Larry