Cymen's Blog » Perl http://blog.cymen.org Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:53:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Shooting Yourself in the Foot with Perl http://blog.cymen.org/2008/12/22/shooting-yourself-in-the-foot-with-perl/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shooting-yourself-in-the-foot-with-perl http://blog.cymen.org/2008/12/22/shooting-yourself-in-the-foot-with-perl/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:14:42 +0000 Cymen http://blog.cymen.org/?p=36 Returning Multiple Values

$error, $hash = function_a( ... );
if ( $error ) { error(); }    // never runs

Correction:

($error, $hash) = function_a( ... );
if ( $error ) { error(); }    // runs on error
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