On Sunday, October 6, 2002, at 01:50 AM, Brent Dax wrote:
> Parens don't construct lists EVER! They only group elements > syntactically. One common use of parens is to surround a > comma-separated list, but the *commas* are creating the list, *not* the > parens! > Following this rule would mean that $a = (); # $a is a list reference with 0 elements should not be a list reference at all and would appear inconsistent. -Noah
