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in reply to Re: Conditional Operator Confusion
in thread Conditional Operator Confusion

Well, pfft - that's no good for golf... although I'm still confused - how does precedence work in this context?

Tom Melly, pm@tomandlu.co.uk

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Re^3: Conditional Operator Confusion
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 29, 2006 at 12:56 UTC
    ?? 
    C:\>perl -MO=Deparse,-p
for(1..10){
  $_>5 ? $x='foo' : $x='bar';
  print "$_:$x\n";
}
^Z
foreach $_ (1 .. 10) {
    ((($_ > 5) ? ($x = 'foo') : $x) = 'bar');
    print("${_}:$x\n");
}
- syntax OK

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