On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:40:37 +0100, Aaron Crane wrote: > Peter Scott writes: >> can someone tell me why you can't just use && ... || in place of ?? >> ... !!, now that && and || propagate context to both sides? > > You get the wrong result when the antecedent is true and the consequent is > false: > > my $a = 1 ?? 0 !! 42; > # Now $a is 0 > > my $b = 1 && 0 || 42; > # Now $b is [42]
Duh, there it is. Still curious as to whether their results could preserve lvalueness. -- Peter Scott
