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Thing that just bit me because #Perl is not quite dwimmy sometimes:

```
my $foo = pop split(/bla/, $str);
```

(can't pop scalar in modern Perl and this construct puts split into scalar context I guess and that's not fun for pop)

(wanted to avoid the ugly `(...)[-1]` construct)

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Bill Ricker
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yep, popping a scalar was found to be too dwimmy. in which case one might expect pop to provide a list context but it's not _that_ special, alas.
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Henrik Pauli
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@BRicker fuzzix's digging for a Perl from before the ill-fated autounwrapping of references was introduced shows that the error message used to be slightly more reasonable back in the day. (mastodon.ie/@fuzzix/1165274148…)

fuzzix (@fuzzix@mastodon.ie)

@phl@mastodon.social Just tried out perl 5.12 (the version before experimental "Array and hash container functions accept references") and got a much more helpful message: $ perl -E 'my $str="fooblabar"; pop split(/bla/, $str);' Type of arg 1 to pop…
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