Tom Christiansen wrote: > > $count = getpwnam("tchrist")/l; > $count = getpwnam("tchrist", LIST); > $count = getpwnam("tchrist")->as_list; > > All of those, frankly, suck. This is much better: > > $count = () = getpwnam("tchrist"); Hmmm. I agree a general purpose mechanism is good, but in this case we already have "scalar" so why not "list"? $count = list getpwnam("tchrist"); While I agree that /l is bad, I think going through the crap of "= () =" is even worse. Does it work? Yes. But is it easily usable and fun, even for non-experts? No. -Nate
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