From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:33:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add note about map in scalar context
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add note about map in scalar context

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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 64f5aa4..c973d0c 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -2244,6 +2244,8 @@ element) and returns the list value composed of the results of each such
 evaluation.  Evaluates BLOCK or EXPR in a list context, so each element of LIST
 may produce zero, one, or more elements in the returned value.
 
+In scalar context, returns the total number of elements so generated.
+
     @chars = map(chr, @nums);
 
 translates a list of numbers to the corresponding characters.  And