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Not very common

Why "Not very common"? I think it is common.

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Re: Re: Re: Declaring variables - is it legal to do this?
by Belgarion (Chaplain) on May 15, 2004 at 19:34 UTC

    I believe most code uses the same methods as japhy's example above. I know I've never used the (..., undef, ...) method, but I have used the (...)[0,1,4] method many times. Granted, my experience doesn't include everyone, but I don't recall seeing the undef example in any Perl documentation, while japhy's example (if I recall correctly) is shown.

    However, as always it's just a personal opinion. :)

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      I've always used: 

      (my $name, my $dept, undef, my $status) = get_info();

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      but I can't remember why. Did 5.00[45] allow this syntax? I guess I don't have to anymore.
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