Re^3: Assign multiple scalars the same value

in reply to Re^2: Assign multiple scalars the same value
in thread Assign multiple scalars the same value

Good point. One could always do this:

use Want 'howmany';
my ($a, $b, $c) = &{ sub{ (1) x howmany } };
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Not sure if that's shorter/better than other solutions (plus requires Want), but it's another way of keeping the number of variables in sync.

-xdg

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