B::Deparse reported this construct as an empty list
if ($tmp eq 'F') {
();
}elsif ...
OK, so is an empty list placed at this point in the bytecode so that when reached, the program evaluates the list? In what context? Or is this just a shorthand display for some NOOP code?
The actual bytecode at this point is a single 'stub' op,
whose action is to return
undef in a scalar context and nothing otherwise. In your example, it's called in a void context. The empty list happens to compile
to the same op.
Dave.
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