On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 01:34:05PM +0000, Smylers wrote: > Until I started using Perl I'd only ever seen an OR operator (however > spelt) used for combining boolean expressions, such as: > > if (!$awoke || $booted > $awoke) > > The concept of 'or if that command failed, here's what to do instead' > was new to me. I liked it, and that there was an operator for it.
This concept will be familiar to shell programmers. I wonder whether it is older than that though. Does anyone have any earlier examples? -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net