I was about to tell you that I'm not sure whether I would recommend it because the

while (<>) {...}

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is associated with quite a lot of dwimmy magic that would would vanish if you amend the construct that way, but when I was about to give you an example it turned out that it was actually a counter-example showing I was plainly wrong:

pilsner:~ [11:58:42]$ perl -MO=Deparse -e 'while (<>) {}'
while (defined($_ = <ARGV>)) {
    ();
}
-e syntax OK
pilsner:~ [11:59:05]$ perl -MO=Deparse -e 'while (local $_=<>) {}'
while (defined(local $_ = <ARGV>)) {
    ();
}
-e syntax OK

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Thus perl is smart enough to still add the definedness test even in that case: I stand corrected, and you taught me something new. I am fairly sure this was not the case with all perls, but I have now tested with 5.8.8 which is the oldest one I have currently access to, and it supports this feature. I don't know when it was actually introduced. I used to believe that it would only work with a variable assignment, but not if a local (or anything else) was preprended to it...

I still feel like claiming that in most cases using while (<>) {...} responsibly would be enough.

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In reply to Re^2: Just when you thought you'd got it: 'foreach $f (@foo)' vs 'foreach (@foo)' by blazar
in thread Just when you thought you'd got it: 'foreach $f (@foo)' vs 'foreach (@foo)' by gone2015

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