On Jul 29, West, William M said: >from Gary Stainburn: > >>> print "xor1" if ($a = $a) ^ ($b = $c); >> >>Presumably this is because you're using the assignment operator and not the >>comparison operator. >> >>print "xor1" if ($a == $b) ^ ($b == $c); > >interesting.. a '=' seems to work fine in an 'and' or 'or' statement--
No, they don't. If they "work fine", it's by accident somehow. You can't use = where you mean == and expect it to work properly. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
