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Re^5: Stuck in Perl.. Partial code, but it needs more improvement.. Any suggestions, please?
by LanX (Saint) on Jun 04, 2021 at 12:30 UTC
    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

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

    update

    swapped $a, $b with $y,$z to appease hippo ;-)

      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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