RosettaCodeData/Task/Gotchas/Perl/gotchas.pl

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sub array1 { return @{ [ 1, 2, 3 ] } }
sub list1 { return qw{ 1 2 3 } }
# both print '3', but why exactly?
say scalar array1();
say scalar list1();
sub array2 { return @{ [ 3, 2, 1 ] } }
sub list2 { return qw{ 3 2 1 } }
say scalar array2(); # prints '3', number of elements in array
say scalar list2(); # prints '1', last item in list