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Doesn't that rely on undefined behaviour though? Auto increment and Auto decrement:

Note that just as in C, Perl doesn't define when the variable is incremented or decremented. You just know it will be done sometime before or after the value is returned.
ie: the doc doesn't rule out your code being interpreted as eval { --$i; $b[ $i ] = $a[ $i ] + $a[ $i ] } while $i;

For example: $b[ $i ] = [ $i, --$i ] while $i; builds a list of identical pairs.</c>

Correct and efficient might be: 

$#b = $#a-1; # Allocate a big enough array
$i = @b;
$b[ $i ] = $a[ $i ] - $a[ $i+1 ] while $i--;

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Re^3: Abusing Map
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 17, 2018 at 16:40 UTC
    Doesn't that rely on undefined behaviour though? ... ie: the doc doesn't rule out your code being interpreted as ...

    Yep. And in 16 years, the behaviour, 'defined by the implementation', hasn't changed; and in the remotely possible circumstance it does, I'll fix it then.

    (Assuming any of my code ever gets run on anything newer than 5.16; and then probably by moving it to Julia.)

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