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On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Eric Brine <ikegami@adaelis.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:24 AM, David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Paul LeoNerd Evans
>> <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote:
>> > At which point we might consider what
>> >
>> > my @values = (while($cond) { EXPR });
>> >
>> > might do.
>> >
>> > Just a thought...
>>
>> it seems clear that @values would wind up holding one of undef, 0, '',
>> or some overloaded reference that gives a false value in boolean
>> context..
>>
>
> It does not seem clear to me at all. Why would Perl do something useless?
> I would expect a warning if not an error
>
...if some useful behaviour can't be found, that is.
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