On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 08:29:00AM -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote: > On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:00:31 +0200 > Hans Ginzel <h...@matfyz.cz> wrote: > > > Is there a shorter way to write $a = ! $a, please? > > Why?
Because it's the sort of thing one might expect Perl to provide. I know that I have thought that before. ^= 1 is close, but you really want something that works on truthiness rather than bits, and xor= doesn't exist. However, since people will tell you off for using $a anyway, I suggest using $| instead, and then the operation you are looking for is $|-- $ perl -E 'say $|-- for 1 .. 5' 0 1 0 1 0 [ If it's not obvious, my tongue was in my cheek for half of this post. ] -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
