in reply to Unexpected parsing
and delighting in the potential for unreadable code coming from using a conditional operator as an lvalue
It takes next to nothing to make the cond op unreadable, but using it as an lvalue itself doesn't make it unreadable.
($axis ? $x : $y) += $distance;
I can't see why 1 ? my $c : my $d would be parsed that way, but 1 ? my $c : $d wouldn't.
It appears to be another case where heuristics enter into play.
my is a valid attribute name, so : my is presumed to be an attribute.
$d is not a valid attribute name, so : $d is taken to be the else expression of the conditional.
Untested, but parens should clear that up.
1 ? (my $c : shared) : ... # shared is an attribute -vs- 1 ? (my $c) : shared # shared is func call
perl -MO=Deparse -e 'my $c; 1 ? $c : my $d; $d'
Note that conditionally executing my officially results in undefined behaviour.