return 0 or return bare

[Aaron Crane]

pierre masci <piemas25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> And now i'm thinking that a scalar function should maybe throw an exception
> when called in list context; for the reason mentioned above.

I suspect that would be extremely annoying in practice.

sub foo {
    confess "Scalar-only routine called in list context" if wantarray;
    ...
}

# Now this throws an exception:
my %hash = (foo => foo());

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