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Assignment operators (like= itself, but also+= or>>=) are supposed to return their left operand as an lvalue, which can then be further modified within the same expression. The old combined numeric/string bitwise assignment operators do this, but the new(er) split numeric and string bitwise operators (as provided byuse feature qw(bitwise)) do not.
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$ perl -wle '$_ = 1; ($_ |= 9) ^= 4; print'13$ perl -wle '$_ = "HI"; ($_ |= "") ^= " " x 2; print'hi$ perl -wle 'use feature qw(bitwise); $_ = 1; ($_ |= 9) ^= 4; print'Can't modify numeric bitwise or (|) in numeric bitwise xor (^) at -e line 1, near "4;"Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.$ perl -wle 'use feature qw(bitwise); $_ = "HI"; ($_ |.= "") ^.= " " x 2; print'Can't modify string bitwise or (|.) in string bitwise xor (^.) at -e line 1, near "2;"Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.Expected behavior
$ perl -wle '$_ = 1; ($_ |= 9) ^= 4; print'13$ perl -wle '$_ = "HI"; ($_ |= "") ^= " " x 2; print'hi$ perl -wle 'use feature qw(bitwise); $_ = 1; ($_ |= 9) ^= 4; print'13$ perl -wle 'use feature qw(bitwise); $_ = "HI"; ($_ |.= "") ^.= " " x 2; print'hiv5.40.0
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