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in reply to Re: Some "combined assignment operators" are exempt from "uninitialized value" warning. Is it documented anywhere?
in thread Some "combined assignment operators" are exempt from "uninitialized value" warning. Is it documented anywhere?

Here's one case where it won't be zero (undef instead), but it isn't very useful.
>perl -e "use warnings; my @nums = (); my $prod; $prod *= $_ for @nums +; print $prod" Use of uninitialized value $prod in print at -e line 1.