I was also puzzled by the differing "termination conditions." I don't see them.

Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32) Mon 04/18/2022 1:31:35 C:\@Work\Perl\monks >perl -c -MO=Deparse,-p - use strict; use warnings; my $filename = 'junk.foo'; open my $fh, '<', $filename or die "opening '$filename': $!"; while (<$fh>) { print; } my $line; while ($line = <$fh>) { print $line; } while (my $line = <$fh>) { print $line; } close $fh or die "closing '$filename': $!"; ^Z use warnings; use strict 'refs'; (my $filename = 'junk.foo'); (open(my $fh, '<', $filename) or die("opening '${filename}': $!")); while (defined(($_ = <$fh>))) { print($_); } my($line); while (defined(($line = <$fh>))) { print($line); } while (defined((my $line = <$fh>))) { do { print($line) }; } (close($fh) or die("closing '${filename}': $!")); - syntax OK Win8 Strawberry 5.30.3.1 (64) Mon 04/18/2022 1:33:08 C:\@Work\Perl\monks >perl -c -MO=Deparse,-p - use strict; use warnings; my $filename = 'junk.foo'; open my $fh, '<', $filename or die "opening '$filename': $!"; while (<$fh>) { print; } my $line; while ($line = <$fh>) { print $line; } while (my $line = <$fh>) { print $line; } close $fh or die "closing '$filename': $!"; ^Z use strict; use warnings; (my $filename = 'junk.foo'); (open(my $fh, '<', $filename) or die(("opening '${filename}': $!"))); while (defined(($_ = readline($fh)))) { print($_); } my($line); while (defined(($line = readline($fh)))) { print($line); } while (defined((my $line = readline($fh)))) { do { print($line) }; } (close($fh) or die(("closing '${filename}': $!"))); - syntax OK


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In reply to Re^3: Critique of some perl code. by AnomalousMonk
in thread Critique of some perl code. by jwkrahn

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