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commit bf55d65d91cd95545972d61170706df20eba4db2
Author: Ludovic E. R. Tolhurst-Cleaver <ca...@ltcdev.com>
Date: Mon Aug 17 21:30:59 2015 -0400
Clarify functioning of '||' operator.
Follow wording from Camel book, 4th ed., p. 120, per suggestion by
Ludovic E. R. Tolhurst-Cleaver. Add Ludovic E. R. Tolhurst-Cleaver
to AUTHORS.
For: RT #125802
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Summary of changes:
AUTHORS | 1 +
pod/perlop.pod | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index c795d6b..c844e9e 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -735,6 +735,7 @@ Louis Strous <louis.str...@gmail.com>
Luc St-Louis <luc.st-lo...@ca.transport.bombardier.com>
Luca Fini
Lucas Holt <l...@foolishgames.com>
+Ludovic E. R. Tolhurst-Cleaver <ca...@ltcdev.com>
Lukas Mai <l....@web.de>
Luke Closs <lu...@cpan.org>
Luke Ross <luker...@gmail.com>
diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod
index bed0695..b7ebbb1 100644
--- a/pod/perlop.pod
+++ b/pod/perlop.pod
@@ -924,9 +924,9 @@ portable way to find out the home directory might be:
In particular, this means that you shouldn't use this
for selecting between two aggregates for assignment:
- @a = @b || @c; # this is wrong
- @a = scalar(@b) || @c; # really meant this
- @a = @b ? @b : @c; # this works fine, though
+ @a = @b || @c; # This doesn't do the right thing
+ @a = scalar(@b) || @c; # because it really means this.
+ @a = @b ? @b : @c; # This works fine, though.
As alternatives to C<&&> and C<||> when used for
control flow, Perl provides the C<and> and C<or> operators (see below).
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