Re^3: Ordering Template cards

> However, when written as you suggest, it always returns true

That's hard to believe, it's a very common construct.

And a little test in the debugger doesn't show any endless loop.

 

  DB<2> while ( my ($x) = () ) {die $x}

  DB<3>
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Re^4: Ordering Template cards by Bod (Parson) on Jan 28, 2021 at 01:10 UTC
Sorry - I was confusing the error I detailed in this post -> Re^3: my $x or my ($x) Of course you are right about it being a common construct and, as soon as I tried to reproduce the problem it became obvious I was getting rather muddled.	[reply]