in reply to RFC: Defined-Or for before Perl 5.10
See def -- Deal nicely with undefined values that I posted in 2000. But I'd actually do it differently:
sub def { my $var= \$_[0]; my $val; while( @_ && ! defined $val ) { $val= shift @_; } $$var= $val if ! defined wantarray; return $val; } # For example: my $size= def( $ENV{MAXSIZE}, -s $swapFile, -1 ); # Or void context causes $size to be modified def( my $size, $ENV{MAXSIZE}, -1 );
- tye
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