in reply to Re^3: Mystery interaction between split and gobbling arrays
in thread Mystery interaction between split and gobbling arrays
You realize that your additional commas are completely ignored by the perl interpreter?
perl -MO=Deparse,-P -e 'my ($x, @y) = (1,2,,,,,); print $#y' my($x, @y) = (1, 2); print $#y; -e syntax OK
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