Update: It's been pointed out that if this were not the case we'd all be: 

$foo = $bar;
if( $foo ) { ...

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And that is not a GoodThing(tm).
Given: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $foo = 1;
my $bar = 2;

if ($foo = 2) {
            print "foo is 2\n";
}

if ($foo = $bar) {
            print "foo is bar two too\n";
}

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I get output of: 
 
Found = in conditional, should be == at ./tpl line 8.
foo is 2
foo is bar two too

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Why no warning when $foo = $bar? It's the same kind of typo error that is being caught with  $foo = 2

The question was posed on the perl-beginners email list. `man warnings` did not provide a clue. `perldoc -q` for conditional and warnings did not turn up an answer. I don't have an answer, much less a good one, for the OP.


Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity

In reply to No warning when assiging to a variable by mikeraz

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