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I've just spotted another issue with list assignment in list context.
Does anyone think the third case below is a bug? I think it should output
"1:u" like the second case:
sub f { print join(':', map $_ // "u", @_), "\n"; }
f(($a,$b) = () ); # prints "u:u"
f(($a,$b) = (1)); # prints "1:u"
f(($a,$b, %h) = (1)); # prints "1"
on the principle that the return value of a list assignment is its LHS;
i.e. that @a = ((X) = (Y)) should be equivalent to (X) = (Y); @a = (X),
where (X) is a list of lvals, like ($a, undef, %h)
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