in reply to list assignment to list in scalar context
List assignment in a scalar context returns the number of items in the right-hand side because that is extremely useful as a Boolean test, as shown in your own example:
while( my( $k, $v ) = each %h ) {
You wouldn't want that loop to terminate early just because one of the values in %h was false.
- tye
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