On Tue Oct 21 21:44:12 2014, sprout wrote:
> On Tue Jul 22 12:18:59 2014, demerphq wrote:> > On 22 July 2014 21:14, Eric Brine <ikeg...@adaelis.com> wrote:> >> > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:08 PM, demerphq <deme...@gmail.com>> > > wrote:> > >> > >> The part I consider the most serious bug is that srand(()) or> > >> sleep(())> > >> are treated the same as srand(undef) or sleep(undef). That is an> > >> empty> > >> list, it should not be treated as a value.> > >>> > >> > > > perl -E"say prototype 'CORE::sleep'"> > > ;$> > >> > > It's Perl's stupid prototypes. ($) means "one argument evaluated in> > > scalar> > > context", so (;$) means "no arguments or one evaluated in scalar> > > context".> > >> > > > perl -E"sub x(;$) { say 0+@_; } x(());"> > > 1> > >> > > A stub in scalar context is undef.> > >> > > > perl -MDevel::Peek -e"$x = (); Dump($x);"> > > SV = NULL(0x0) at 0x229240> > > REFCNT = 1> > > FLAGS = ()> > >> > >> > Interesting. Thanks. That does make sense, in a sad way.> > I see no other way for this to work. Can we close this as not-a-bug?
I agree, closing.
Tony
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https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122351