On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:41:10 +0000 David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:23:46PM +0000, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > * Dominic Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > $foo ? do_foo_stuff() : do_other_stuff(); > > > > > > > Ok, this started off as a bit of a joke/troll, however i'm about to > > take my own bait .... > > > > For what its worth, i think this syntax is one of the worst pieces of > > syntax in Perl. > > The really sick puppies (cough) are those who nest ?: inside each other. That reminds me so much of trying to do multiple conditionals in an Excel spreadsheet. I suppose I could learn VBA, or perhaps jump out the office window when asked to produce solutions in Excel. -- Tony Kennick TechnoPhobia Limited. Phone: +44 (0)114 2212123 Fax: +44 (0)114 2212124 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.technophobia.com Registered in England and Wales Company No. 3063669 VAT registration No. 598 7858 42 The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the addressee and are intended solely for the recipients use. If you are not the addressee, you have received this e-mail in error. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the author personally and not TechnoPhobia Limited who do not accept responsibility for the contents of the message. All e-mail communications, in and out of TechnoPhobia, are recorded for monitoring purposes.