I have recently played little bit with this useful operator and came across its behaviour which is at least strange and confusing. Consider following one-liner:

perl -we'my @l = qw/ca qw/; for (@l) { print if /a/../c/ }'
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According to documentation: "The right operand is not evaluated while the operator is in the "false" state, and the left operand is not evaluated while the operator is in the "true" state." So I would expect that the result of this code would be "caqw". I am assuming here that Perl processes each array element char by char "from left to right" and therefore doesn't evaluate /c/ operand, because it's in false state, and then goes to true state because it evaluates /a/ operand and stays so till the end.

The actual result is nevertheless only "ca" which I find really strange and almost wrong. What is your opinion of this Perls's behaviour? Don't you think it would be more logical it would print "caqw"?

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