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  • You can also:

    push @array, @{ $x || [] };

    It is not pretty, but anyway :-)

    --
    Igor Sutton

    • If $x is not a long and complex expression, then readability would command to use push @array, @$x if $x;.

      Note that the really equivalent code would be this:

      $x = [] if not defined $x;
      push @array, @$x;

      Or in 5.10 parlance:

      push @array, @{ $x //= [] };

      Because the reason that the for loop doesn’t throw an error is that it because it aliases $_ to each element, rather than copying, it has to provide lvalue context on each iteration, which means it must also provide lvalue context to the containe

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