On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:29:30AM -0500, Ken Williams wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (will trillich) wrote:
> > > sub search {
> > > # ....
> > > {
> > > use CGI qw/:standard/;
> > > my $form = join '',
> > > map {
> > > hidden(
> > > -name => $_,
> > > -value => $arg->{$_},
> > > ) . "\n"
> > > }
> > > grep(
> > > $arg->{$_} and ($_ ne 'd') and ($_ ne 'go')
> >
> >as is, the functions that follow (top-level 'sub xyz {}') get
> >screwy. code disappears.
> >
> >replace "and" with "&&" and all is well. boggles my mind.
>
>
> Well, as far as I can tell, the original code doesn't even compile
> because there aren't enough arguments to grep(). That's why I couldn't
> test it.
grep(
$arg->{$_} and ($_ ne 'd') and ($_ ne 'go')
, keys %$arg # note the leading comma...
)
aha -- so maybe "x and y and z , pdq" has lexical precedence
where the (z,pdq) parses higher, as in
x and y and (z , pdq)
versus what i expected, which was
(x and y and z) , pdq
hmm?
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