I like
~~EXPR as a brief (read: obfuscated) way to enforce scalar context on an expression; it only renders the return value unusable if
EXPR is a reference.
_____________________________________________________
Jeff
japhy Pinyan,
P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.:
Perl,
regex,
and
perl
hacker
How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart