On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 05:57:11PM +0000, Chris Ball wrote:
> OOI, does '&&' have a higher precedence than 'and' in perl? This seems
> to be the case in php. I haven't worked out why yet; they're definitely
> both comparison rather than bitwise. It confuses me.
Yes, 'or' and 'and' has very low precedence. This is useful for writing
stuff like
frob $foo or frob $bar;
which looks nice and DWIM, unlike
frob $foo || frob $bar;
which doesn't do what I want, and
frob($foo) || frob($bar);
which does what I want but doesn't look as natural language-like.
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