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in reply to Re: Perl Idioms Explained - !!expr
in thread Perl Idioms Explained - !!expr

I like ~~EXPR as a brief (read: obfuscated) way to enforce scalar context on an expression; it only renders the return value unusable if EXPR is a reference.
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