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Re: [perl #113554] my() with empty list causes weird error

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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
June 25, 2012 08:37
Subject:
Re: [perl #113554] my() with empty list causes weird error
Message ID:
CALJW-qGWaAUSWTAKbO5SA8ppD85WVvmndCkszdt39Xu7jVdoMQ@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Reini Urban via RT <
perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:

> The error message is not weird


Well, it mentions an operator that's thoroughly undocumented, a hack used
to satisfy other operators that require an op when there isn't any (e.g.
empty loop blocks, empty assignment operands). A message that mentions it
is weird to me.

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