Hi Monks,

I've been having a bit of trouble with getting perl to act reliably following a logical OR statement in code. I want to perform multiple operations in case of a failure when opening a file for write, and so my choices would seem to be to call a subroutine or to set a flag indicating a failure. For example:

 open FILE, ">test.txt" || $failed_flag = 1;

The above example will not compile, I've also tried with using a &subroutine instead of a direct assignment with no luck. It compiles, but the subroutine seems to never actually run...

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