TIAS: Try It And See.

Not to be too onerous, but you've given enough info to test it yourself. Why not just do this? 

C:\>perl -demo

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.28
Editor support available.

Enter h or `h h' for help, or `perldoc perldebug' for more help.

main::(-e:1):   mo
  DB<1> for (-1..1) { print "$_"; print "\tTrue" if ($x = $_); print "
+\n" }
-1      True
0
1       True

  DB<2>

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And there you have it.

But what happens when get_parent returns a false value? Here it seems OK, as $self is lexical to this sub. In other situations, you might not want to overwrite $self.

Yes, the assignment is done, and you can then test for it.

-QM
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In reply to Re: assignment operator return values by QM
in thread assignment operator return values by rvosa

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