On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:39:16PM +0000, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > The conditional operator should never be used purely for its side effects > IMO - It should always been an assignment.
I'd agree with that, though I have occassionally used ?: as an lvalue. Perlop used to say "This is not necessarily guaranteed to contribute to the readability of your program", but that seems to have gone from recent versions. Anyone know why? I suspect it's for the same reason that the tunefs manpage no longer says "You can tune a file system, but you can't tuna fish". Trying to make Perl more acceptable to management bods who probably don't even know how to read a manpage. Or maybe it's because it is now guaranteed to contribute to the readability of your program :-) I also happen to think that nested ?:s can aid readability, provided they are formatted correctly ... -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
