in reply to Re^4: Eliminating "used only once" warnings from List::Util::reduce
in thread Eliminating "used only once" warnings from List::Util::reduce

But probably instead should be fixed within the Perl interpreter so as to special-case $a and $b further.

I always thought that it would be (would have been) better to use $A & $B for this instead.

That might at least prevent all these pointless "Don't use $a & $b" pseudo-commandments.

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