in reply to Re: Is undef list assignment a no-op?
in thread Is undef list assignment a no-op?

If there is a good reason, (and I cannot think of one), then given the not insignificant difference in performance:

I don't know about good, but I think I've seen this scenario with callbacks, POE/LWP/Tk.... sometimes the first arg is large object, or large string, and you wish to avoid $_[0] or $_[CONSTANT] etc etc

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Re^3: Is undef list assignment a no-op?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 25, 2011 at 15:58 UTC

    Good call++

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