I always use or in such situations, and I dislike perldocs which do otherwise, because these are invitations for refactoring problems.
Personally I use || only in
- in arithmetic expressions $x = $y || $z
- to override false defaults were $x ||= $y
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I always use or in such situations, and I dislike perldocs which do otherwise
So do I. I also dislike the use of $a and $b in docs as metasyntactic variables as they are subsequently used in cargo-culted code and become the cause of errors. There are, after all, plenty of others to choose from.
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