Scalar || List context

Feb 12
2008

Perl

 $a  = ("a", "b", "c"); # $a is "c" - the last element
($a) = ("a", "b", "c"); # $a is "a" - the first element

Ruby

 obj        = ["a", "b", "c"] # obj is Array - ["a", "b", "c"]
 obj, b, c = ["a", "b", "c"] # obj is String - "a"

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