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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 4300 Volume: 11

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Tue Oct 21 18:09:17 2014

Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:09:03 -0700 (PDT)
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To: Perl-Users@ruby.OCE.ORST.EDU (Perl-Users Digest)

Perl-Users Digest           Tue, 21 Oct 2014     Volume: 11 Number: 4300

Today's topics:
    Re: prime <jblack@nospam.com>
        Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 6 Apr 01) (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)

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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:27:57 -0500
From: John Black <jblack@nospam.com>
Subject: Re: prime
Message-Id: <MPG.2eb08bdbc32dd0729897fb@news.eternal-september.org>

In article <871tq28l4n.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com>, 
rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com says...
> This is really no different from
> 
> $a += $b if $c < 34;
> 
> $a += $b is a simple statement (based on another binary operator)
> 

Well it appears different because $a and $b are just scalars whereas "$N=0" and "last" look 
more like statements in their own right, than simple components of a statement.  It wouldn't 
make sense to write $N=0 += last.  But I understand now.  Thanks for the explanation.

John Black


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