Here's another "What's a quick and real neat way of...." type question

[Grant McLean]

> -----Original Message-----
Shaun McCarthy wrote:
> while (@a && my($a, $b) = (shift @a, shift @b)) {
> }

Actually, you need to use either the lower priority 'and':

  while (@a and my($a, $b) = (shift @a, shift @b)) {
  }

or use parentheses to stop the && binding to the my($a, $b)
and causing the remainder of the line to be a syntax error
("assignment to a logical &&").

Grant

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