in reply to Re^4: Scalar assignment with loop iterator considered bad?
in thread Scalar assignment with loop iterator considered bad?

Which is why I'd probably defer adding the trailing comma until I knew I was actually going to add something else: 


$var .= join ', ', @stuff;

$var .= ', ' . 'more stuff' if $moreStuffNeeded;

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