Re^4: Perl oddities (s/// doesn't DWIM in map)

[Roy Johnson]

in reply to Re^3: Perl oddities (s/// doesn't DWIM in map)
in thread Perl oddities

Would that be equivalent to

(my $modified = $_) =~ s/$pattern/$change_to/g;

or

s/$pattern/$change_to/g;
my $modified = $_;

?

[Joost]

I would say the first one makes more sense.