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in reply to Conditional Operator Confusion

You may like:

for(1..10){
  $x= $_ > 5 && 'foo' || 'bar';
  print "$_:$x\n";
}

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instead. Update: You may like:

print"$_:${[$_>5&&'foo'||'bar']}[0]\n"for 1..10;

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even better.

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