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On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 3:53 PM, Ed Avis <perlbug-followup@perl.org> 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.
>
Oh, but it can. You never know what other programmers might do
intentionally.
> A compile-time warning should be given when an assignment statement
> has a list of two or more items on the LHS, and the RHS is a scalar
> variable expression that begins with a $ sign.
>
Sounds like this will break (well, start warning) on the common (quick
and dirty) slurp idiom:
my $text = do { local (@ARGV, $/) = $filename; <> } ;
.. and that's just off the top of my head.
Do we really want "style" warnings on correct and intentional code?
Eirik
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