On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 08:18:36PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 07:16:05PM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud via RT wrote: > : Note however that TimToady on #perl6 speculated [1] that an empty return > : should return the Object prototype. I'm not sure the answer was > : resolved completely in that thread, however, so we'll go with returning > : 'undef' for now and wait for a more definitive answer before closing > : this ticket. > > A C<return> just returns its argument list as a Capture, so it's > probably just returning the "null" Capture, presumably with Object > (undef) in the scalar slot and an empty list in the list slot and > an empty hash in the hash slot.
By "(undef)" here did you mean simply that it's an undefined Object (prototype), or that the C<undef> function now returns Object instead of Failure (S02:872)? Thanks, Pm
