Re^2: Trouble getting size of list returned from sub

[TomDLux]

You can also fold the variable into the same line as the print:

say ( my $mp =()= bad() );

But I wouldn't say that's an improvement. In fact, I would tuck all this away into a routine, to hide details and leave only the high-level purpose.

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