There are little known operators `andthen`, `orelse`, `notandthen` (I always
forget about the latter one too). What you are looking for would be:
given $s { m/ $=\w+ / andthen ..say }
Or, if you want a named variable:
given ("aaa") { (my $m = m/$=\w+/) andthen $m..say }
Best regards,
Vadim
I like statement modifiers, though not so much using side-effect variables
set by a postfix modifier, I'd like to see the side effect before seeing
the variable it sets. Something like
/ .+ / && put "The root of $_ is $/.";
though the discussion is about not setting $/ in the caller's context
