RE: RE: Re: Can perl do...?


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RE: RE: Re: Can perl do...?

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on Jun 05, 2000 at 23:17 UTC ( #16486=note: print w/replies, xml )

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That doesn't do anything at all; you're introducing a value into a null context. That is, your statement has no effect whatsoever since there are no side effects. For instance, try the one-liner perl -we "$_;"Using the -w flag will let you know when your statements aren't doing anything.

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RE: RE: RE: Re: Can perl do...? by nashdj (Friar) on Jun 06, 2000 at 14:01 UTC
Ok, so if it does nothing, then why not in a future perl release allow that to assign the value to $_. Sure it might sound completely useless, but if it already is useless. I would find something like that very handy. As for making sense, it seems to do that too..	[reply]
RE: RE: RE: Re: Can perl do...? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jun 07, 2000 at 02:12 UTC
It does one thing nashdj alluded to. As the last statement in a block, the resultant value of the block is the value in the variable. For example, in the Everything source they'll occasionally have a subroutine that does something like: `sub do_thisorthat { my ($text, $op) = shift; my $code = get_op($op); $code->$text; # manipulate text $text; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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