Re^2: WitchTest - A Tool For Determining If A Woman Is Guilty Of Witchcraft

But that means that if there's a fatal error during the test, the result is (s)he ain't a witch. Perhaps better:

my $is_dead = ($is_witch) = !eval {!witch_test($suspect)};
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Then if there's a failure in the test equipment, it can be blamed on the evil powers of the subject, and (s)he then must be a witch.

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Re^3: WitchTest - A Tool For Determining If A Woman Is Guilty Of Witchcraft by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 02, 2009 at 15:31 UTC
Your recommended fix won't work. `$is_dead` will always be equal to 1 (the number of values returned by `!eval{}`).	[reply] [d/l] [select]