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Re:Perl Already Won by chromatic on Monday January 19, 2015 @11:43AM (#8912656)
I think even PHP is more sane here.

I'm not sure how an appeal to PHP as lowest-common-denominator of language sanity argues against understanding the return values of functions you call.

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Re:Perl Already Won by prodigal_erik on Friday January 23, 2015 @01:55AM (#8933712)
> understanding the return values of functions you call

Sure you should. But confusion between keys and values isn't useful, so there's no reason for a subexpression to be able to do that, and in PHP it can't.

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