On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Tanner Swett <swe...@mail.gvsu.edu> wrote: > 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.
Which is the same as ||, just with different precedence.
