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rir has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

In my code I will usually return arrayrefs. Occasionally I will return an array. I can't remember ever returning a list. This seems sensible and also normal practice, except for core perl funcs that are advertised to return lists.

Given an array what is the best way to return it as a list?

Other than punning existing functions are there good reasons to return a list instead of an array?