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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 ( [id://11133505]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^4: Stuck in Perl.. Partial code, but it needs more improvement.. Any suggestions, please?
in thread Stuck in Perl.. Partial code, but it needs more improvement.. Any suggestions, please?

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 ;-)

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Re^6: Stuck in Perl.. Partial code, but it needs more improvement.. Any suggestions, please?
by hippo (Bishop) on Jun 04, 2021 at 12:44 UTC
    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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