[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.