Look. And I am talking to each and every one of you here. Stop using one liners like this. Period. 
my $p;

if (condition()) {
    $p = $q;
}

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You are doing ABSOLUTELY NO ONE a favor by being clever. If you would just go ahead and stop being falsely lazy and write out the block, you will realize that you are actually saving time now when later you have to debug this code. Get it?

In reply to Re: "my $p = value if condition()" as bad|deprecated as "my $p if 0" (Naughty indeed) by Anonymous Monk
in thread "my $p = value if condition()" as bad|deprecated as "my $p if 0" (Naughty indeed) by parv

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