Bill RickerBRicker@fosstodon.org
May 7, 2026, 8:37 PM@phl 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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May 7, 2026, 9:05 PM@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. (https://mastodon.ie/@fuzzix/116527414827162458)