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list assign in list context was over-optimising
GH #17816
This code:
my $x = 1;
print (($x, undef) = (2 => $x));
was printing "22" when it should have been printing "21".
An optimisation skips the 'common values on both sides' test
when the LHS of an assign only contains a single var; as the example
above shows, this is not sufficient.
This was broken by v5.23.1-202-g808ce55782
This commit fixes it by counting undef's on the LHS towards the var
count if they don't appear first.