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Re^2: "Can't happen" bugs

by jrockway (Acolyte)
on Jan 18, 2007 at 18:47 UTC ( [id://595381]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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in reply to Re: "Can't happen" bugs
in thread "Can't happen" bugs

Beautiful! That's why you should always put the constant on the left:

if(0 = $x) # Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment.

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Re^3: "Can't happen" bugs
by lodin (Hermit) on Jul 05, 2008 at 11:42 UTC

    Or use warnings:

    use warnings; my $x; if ($x = 0) { 1 } __END__ Found = in conditional, should be == at - line 4.

    lodin

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