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in reply to Re^3: unless versus if ( ! ) inside a subroutine
in thread unless versus if ( ! ) inside a subroutine

Conditionals are not always evaluated. The compiler can sometimes decide to phrase things differently.
U:\> perl -MO=Deparse -le "$x = 5; if ($x) { print $x }" $x = 5; if ($x) { print $x; }
U:\>perl -MO=Deparse -le "$x = 5; if (0) { print $x }" $x = 5; '???';
U:\>perl -MO=Deparse -le "$x = 5; if (1) { print $x }" $x = 5; print $x;;
U:\>perl -MO=Deparse -le "$x = 5; if (! 0) { print $x }" $x = 5; print $x;;

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