[perl #56524] empty list elements in list context

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This is a bug report for perl from sicking@liacs.nl,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.8.


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#!/usr/bin/perl

my @rl = []->[0];
# @rl is a list containing a single 'undef', no problem.

my @l = ()[0];
# @l is empty list? I would expect the same as above. Did I just miss
# something?

# Kind regards,

# Floris Jan Sicking

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper \@rl, \@l;

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=low
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This perlbug was built using Perl v5.8.8 - Fri Nov  9 00:58:43 UTC 2007
It is being executed now by  Perl v5.8.8 - Fri Nov  9 00:54:44 UTC 2007.

Site configuration information for perl v5.8.8:

Configured by abuild at Fri Nov  9 00:54:44 UTC 2007.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.18, archname=i586-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux couperin 2.6.18 #1 smp 20070921 22:29:00 utc i686 athlon i386 gnulinux '
    config_args='-ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dinstallusrbinperl -Dusethreads -Di_db -Di_dbm -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Duseshrplib=true -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -Wall -pipe'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -Wall -pipe',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =''
    libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version='2.5'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.8.8:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.8:
    HOME=/home/sicking
    LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ssl/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/sicking/bin:/home/sicking/bin.Linux:/home/sicking/bin.Oracle:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/sicking/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/tcsh

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"Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>

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