At the introductory level it seems like I have often seen code like this: use strict;
my $var = 1; And as I review other peoples' scripts I have often encountered code like this: use strict; my ( $this, $that, $the_other ); Which I interpreted as a mechanism to declare a number of scalar variables with a minimum of typing. But lately I've been seeing this syntax and I was wondering if it was fundamentally different (and somehow more desirable): use strict; my ( $var ) = 1; As if $var is being declared in a list context; what, if anything, do I get by including parentheses when declaring a single variable? Thanks, --Marc
