On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:06:20AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:45:13PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > : According to S05, "a /.../ matches immediately in a value context > : (void, Boolean, string, or numeric)" and since > : > : (state $x) ||= / pattern /; > : > : is very much the same as > : > : state $x; $x = $x || /pattern/; > : > : I'd say that's a "boolean context" and thus matches against $_ instead > : of assigning the Regex object to $x. > > Except the right side of || isn't in boolean context till you evaluate > $x that way, so it probably wants to be written with m//:
I almost added a little bit of text to the end of that other message but didn't. I think it's most appropriate now: I must say that I have trouble distinguishing when using // gives you a Regex object and when it actually does pattern matching, so I intend on always using m// when I want a match, and some form of rx// when I want an object. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
