[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:

> Sam> No, "but" is syntactically equivalent to "and" in English.  It just
> Sam> implies that the second condition is not generally what you'd
> Sam> expect if the first was true.
> Maybe in the interest of huffman encoding, we could make it
> "even_though". :)

Hmm, to me that implies a binary "and" where the short circuit behaviour
is reversed.

if ($var eq "" even_though defined $var) { }

Sam.

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