Secret Perl Operators

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November 30, 2009, 21:01

It looks like the benefit of the inchworm-on-a-stick method is that it returns the value decremented, without actually decrementing the value:

my $a = 0;my $b = 2;$a = --$b;print "\$a : $a\n";print "\$b : $b\n";#-----$a = 0;$b = 2;$a = ~-$b;print "\$a : $a\n";print "\$b : $b\n";
returns:$a : 1$b : 1$a : 1$b : 2
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