more RE: Polygons & Nodal Points...

cabney cabney at cyberpass.net
Thu Jul 26 10:23:32 CDT 2001


~sdpm~
This statement turns out to do something different than I expected:

while ( (my $rung) = shift @ladder )
{
	# ... 
}

I thought assignment of $rung returned the value assigned to it, but it
seems to be returning a true regardless of whether something is there
to assign.

while ( my $rung = shift @ladder )
{
	# ... 
}

helped, but I can't recall what prompted me to put those damn parens
there in the first place! :-p

So in the first example, am I right in thinking (my $rung) is being
eval'd in a list context, in which case I'm getting a -1 return value
when @ladder has been cleared?

[just as an aside, perlfunc has no while() entry, at least my v5.6.1]

CA
-- 
There was a time
A wind that blew so young
For this could be the biggest sky
And I could have the faintest idea

~sdpm~

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