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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-06-01 08:12:00 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-06-01 08:12:00 +0000
commit46836f5c247eb34869c545432b788a4a49f94ab5 (patch)
treed2d913901118bc2e3d4c9c4daee1fb2e097315a7 /pod/perltrap.pod
parentd78bda3d795fc7304baa075ae01db33175e538c2 (diff)
downloadperl-46836f5c247eb34869c545432b788a4a49f94ab5.tar.gz
remove incorrect documentation about implicit split to @_ in
list context, which never really worked in perl 5 (from M.J.T. Guy) p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6185
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@@ -586,6 +586,12 @@ Some error messages will be different.
=item * Discontinuance
+In Perl 4, if in list context the delimiters to the first argument of
+C<split()> were C<??>, the result would be placed in C<@_> as well as
+being returned. Perl 5 has more respect for your subroutine arguments.
+
+=item * Discontinuance
+
Some bugs may have been inadvertently removed. :-)
=back