You wrote:
> ($var1, $var2) is magic. I hate magic.
It's not magic. It's just simpler.
> What do you look up in the Perl
> manual when you hit syntax like that?
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perldata.html
> In PHP the equivalent syntax is:
>
> list($var1, $var2) = ...
Which is longer, and requires you to learn a keyword that you don't need
to learn in Perl.
> It does exactly the same thing, and it is legible. Anybody can pop
over
> to http://php.net/list and get an explanation of what the code does if
> they run across it.
I use list context a lot in PHP and Perl, and I prefer Perl's way of
doing it *because* it allows you to be as verbose or terse as you like.
PHP, unfortunately, doesn't give you that freedom.
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