Thanks.....
The telling story is
((print(1) and 1) and ('???', '???'));
Perl seems to be looking for another operator when using 'and'.
-Jeff
--- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:21:49PM -0800, Jeff Westman wrote:
>
> > Basic question on using '&&' vs 'and'. I see that '&&' has higher
> precedence
> > than 'and', but why does
> >
> > print 1 && 1 && 0;
> > print "\n";
> > print 1 and 1 and 0;
> > print "\n";
> >
> > return
> > 0
> > 1
> >
> > I would have expected both statements to return 0.
>
> s/return/print/g
>
>
> Running your program through perl -MO=Deparse,-p gives:
>
> print(0);
> print("\n");
> ((print(1) and 1) and '???');
> print("\n");
>
> "and" has very low precedence.
>
> --
> Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.pjcj.net
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