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From:
Bernie Cosell
Date:
February 1, 2005 10:20
Subject:
Re: "Secret" operators
Message ID:
200502011820.j11IKPAo013533@mail.rev.net
On 1 Feb 2005 at 12:36, Ronald J Kimball wrote:

> ... A list assignment in scalar context
> returns the number of elements on the right-hand side of the assignment.

Which is an odd inconsistency, because in list context a list assignment 
returns the left-hand-side-list, so you might guess that in scalar 
context it'd return the number of elements in the lhs list...

  /Bernie\

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