returning lists from subroutines

[James Ponder <ja...@db.com>]

Hi,

I think there may be a bug in your subroutine handling code, or at least an unexpectedness that I can't find documented:

[$ sub testsub $]
[-
  my @a = ('foo', 'bar');
  return @a;
-]
[$ endsub $]

Whatever context this subroutine is called in, the return statement is always evaluated in scalar context, so if I called this with:

my @b = testsub();

@b now contains just '2', rather than the two list elements.


Best wishes, James
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Re: returning lists from subroutines

[Gerald Richter <ri...@ecos.de>]

Hi,
>
>
> Whatever context this subroutine is called in, the return statement is
always evaluated in scalar context, so if I called this with:
>

That's true. I think I should fix it and make behave it like in Perl.

BTW. 1.3.4 isn't able to return values from subs at all (only as parametrer
per reference) and when I designed 2.0 I wanted to change this, but didn't
have done any test on it so far. So it more suprising that it works at all
:-)

I put it on the TODO list, so we get correctly working return args for the
next release

Gerald


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