Make empty lvalue subs work correctly

In perl 5.8.1 and earlier, sub{} would return @_ in list context. This
was fixed in 5.8.2 for regular subs, but not lvalue subs.

Before the syntactic restriction on return values was removed in
commit 145b2bb, there was a bug affecting compilation of empty subs
before any use statement:

$ perl5.14.0 -e 'sub foo :lvalue {}'
Can't modify stub in lvalue subroutine return at -e line 1, near "{}"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
$ perl5.14.0 -le 'use sigtrap; sub foo :lvalue {} print "ok"'
ok

But I digress. :-)

Up to 5.14, lvalue subs were still returning @_, or, rather, the ele-
ments of @_ as separate scalars:

$ perl5.14.0 -Mre -le '(sub :lvalue {}->($a,$b))=(3,4); print "$a $b"'
Useless use of "re" pragma at -e line 0
3 4

(Not exactly useless, eh? The -Mre allows the sub to compile.)

This commit fixes that bug.

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