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Re^4: Can you explain the result?

by Anonymous Monk
on Dec 06, 2011 at 13:36 UTC ( [id://942024]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Can you explain the result?
in thread Can you explain the result?

Do you mean the priority of and is even lower than return???

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Re^5: Can you explain the result?
by Utilitarian (Vicar) on Dec 06, 2011 at 14:17 UTC
    Indeed it is, if you want something evaluated put it in parenthesis to be sure
    return (1 and 0);
    returns 0 as you would expect.

    print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."
Re^5: Can you explain the result?
by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Dec 06, 2011 at 18:01 UTC

    See perlop for the precedence table. not, and, or, and xor are all at the bottom of the table.

    --MidLifeXis

Re^5: Can you explain the result?
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 06, 2011 at 15:09 UTC

    Indeed. and 'n or are good for control flow such as replacing simple error-handling ifs, while && 'n || are your standard Boolean logic operators.

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