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by kqr 1121 days ago

  @foods = qw(burgers fries shakes);
  $length = @foods;
Not to mention that this refactoring introduces a bug:

  $length = qw(burgers fries shakes);
Because lists and arrays convert to scalars differently. A list is more of a syntactic construct and an array is a data structure. Confused the heck out of me my first few weeks of Perl.