Out of the frying pan into the fire

This is the frying pan:

   $ perl -we 'print "a=$a\n";'
   Use of uninitialized value at -e line 1.
   a=

This is the fire:

   $ perl -we '$a ||= ""; print "a=$a\n";'
   a=

Why? Because!

   $perl -e '$a="0"; $a ||= ""; print "a=$a\n";'
   a=

Moral of the story: When trying to avoid -w(arnings) against
uninitialized variables you cannot simply insert $v ||= ''; statements.

Regards,
-Wolfgang

• Out of the frying pan into the fire by Wolfgang Laun