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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
January 3, 2012 06:15
Subject:
Re: defined(@arr), defined (%hash)
Message ID:
20120103141529.GT9069@plum.flirble.org
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:08:35AM -0500, Matthew Horsfall (alh) wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> 
> > Whatever is on the left of the AASSIGN is called "array", whether it's an
> > array, a list or a hash. (I can't think of anything else that's
> > syntactically valid to put there)
> >
> >
> Yeah.
> 
> I'm considering tackling this on Sunday at Perl Oasis unless someone else
> claims it before then.
> 
> Though I'm not sure honestly why defined(() = ...) even makes sense; seems
> like that should be its own warning...

I can't see any sense for it. I think it can only tell you something
implementation dependent about temporary internal storage. Which, obviously
is something essential to know about, and never a mistake.

Nicholas Clark
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