[methods (and subs in general)]
can return lists in a list context,
or scalars in a scalar context. Nothing else.
Cannot return an array.
Okay, merlyn. I'm puzzled again.
If anyone else had posted this assertion, I would have
made this as a correction rather than a genuine inquiry.
The following snippet seems
to demonstrate the ret_array sub returning an array.
But I've been enough rounds on the
array/list thing to know that
things ain't always what they seem.
Is more happening here than meets the eye?
sub ret_array { return @_; }
sub ret_list { return @_[0..$#_]; }
my @array = ('a','b','c');
print scalar ret_array('a','b','c'); # 3
print scalar ret_array(@array); # 3
print scalar ret_list('a','b','c'); # c
print scalar ret_list(@array); # c