>>>>> "JP" == John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JP> Yes; but the question isn't really "why", it's "how".
JP> Apparently chop() is specialized internally to detect the
JP> hashness of its argument, in a way that can't be expressed
JP> by a prototype.
well, according to this
perl5.6.0 -le '%h = qw( a b c d ); $_ .= 1 for %h ; print values %h ; chop %h ; print
values %h'
b1d1
bd
it doesn't appear to be a chop specific thing. unraveling a hash always
seems to use aliases for the values. chop just takes a list like it
always has.
uri
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