> > 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
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