[doc] perlop: "Assignment Operators" section missing scalar return value

[subrook]

Where

the Assignment Operators section of the perlop documentation (either from running perldoc perlop or visiting http://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.0/perlop.html#Assignment-Operators)

Description

This section documents the return value of a list assignment in list context, and of a list assignment in scalar context, but does not say anything about the return value of a scalar assignment.

I presume this return value is the value of the scalar assigned, as this would seem to be the mechanism that allows something like $a = $b = $c = 5 to assign 5 to all three variables:

perl -e '$a = $b = $c = 5; print "$a $b $c\n";'

This should be mentioned in this section of perlop. Thanks for considering this.

[subrook]

The original bug report refers to the 5.30.0 documentation, but it still applies to the current (5.42.0) documentation: http://perldoc.perl.org/5.42.0/perlop#Assignment-Operators

[jkeenan]

@khwilliamson are you taking this ticket?