Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>>"Bryan" == Bryan R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Bryan> Is there an "&&=" also? How about "or="?
>
> There's an &&=, and I thought I'd never use it.
>
> However, one day, I realized that I needed to "normalize" the "true/false"
> value of a variable, because I wanted to reduce all possible true/false
> values to just 1/0 for easy operations in the next step of the program.
>
> And I came up with this:
>
> $variable ||= 0; # all false values become 0
> $variable &&= 1; # all true values become 1
>
> OK, so it's weird. :) I could have just as easy had said:
>
> $variable = ($variable ? 1 : 0);
>
> But the actual case of needing &&= was cool.
Wouldn't
$variable = !!$variable;
work just as well?
John
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