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On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 06:53:44AM -0700, Ed Avis wrote:
> This is probably a mistake:
>
> ($foo, $bar) = $baz;
>
> In my case it usually means that I wanted @{$baz} instead.
> For other programmers there might be some other reason.
> But surely it cannot be intentional.
A quick grep shows for example in ExtUtils-Install,
my ($key, $data) = $line;
where from the context it seems likely that the intent is
my $data;
my $key = $line.
Which makes the code both correct and intentional.
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