Re: looking for a good idiom: return this if this is true

return $_ if $_ = thatroutine();?

I tried

return $var if my $var = thatroutine();
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and

return my $var if $var = thatroutine();
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but neither works.

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Re^2: looking for a good idiom: return this if this is true by gaal (Parson) on Mar 06, 2005 at 08:50 UTC
Don't do that; `$_` is a global.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: looking for a good idiom: return this if this is true by adamk (Chaplain) on Mar 07, 2005 at 13:49 UTC
I concur. And I've previously found when I was doing a micro-optimisation effort somewhere, that $_ is also relatively slow to assign and then read from, compared to the temporary variable.	[reply]