[Melbourne-pm] Postfix conditionals and creating lexicals

[Toby Corkindale]

On 12/07/12 14:17, Alfie John wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Brendon Oliver wrote:
>> FWIW, I asked about this several years ago & we had a discussion about
>> it on this list.
>>
>> (grovels thru google....)
>>
>> http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/melbourne-pm/2007-October/002511.html
>>
>> nearly 5 years ago! wow.
>
> Interesting going back on the previous discussion. Here's one of the
> links from the thread to the same issue on p5p:
>
>    http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/05/p5pdigest/THISWEEK-20000521.html#my_x_if_0;_Trick

So it's a bug/feature that's been around for 12 years now. :/