On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > Anyway, I thought 'perl-or' wasn't the Boolean logical 'or'. I thought > 'perl-or' was "Do X or die" so that 'or' == 'otherwise'.
If I'm not mistaken, 'or' in Perl evaluates its left argument and returns that, unless it is false, in which case it evaluates and returns its right argument. Things like "do X or die" work because the expression "die" is evaluated if and only if "do X" is false. —Tanner L. Swett
