Re^2: Looking for discussions of "block after or" syntax error

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print returns false on failure, in which case the 'and' would short-circuit and exit would never get called.

Granted, it's pretty unusual for print to fail -- so rare that we rarely test for success in our prints, and usually don't think in terms of "this could fail", but when you absolutely positively want to exit, don't include a logical test on print's success.

Dave

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Re^3: Looking for discussions of "block after or" syntax error by Laurent_R (Canon) on May 01, 2013 at 21:34 UTC
Agreed. I did not think about that. And I usually don't do such a print anyway but rather a die statement (although, going to the end of this logic, what do you do if die fails? Do you 'die "i failed" or die "die failed"'? Usually, the only reason I want to know that opening a file failed if to get an immediate diagnostic of the reason for the program failure. If the print statement fails, well, I am likely to have more severe problems than just file opening.	[reply]
Re^4: Looking for discussions of "block after or" syntax error by davido (Cardinal) on May 01, 2013 at 21:48 UTC
die doesn't have a useful return value (to my knowledge), and would never be placed on the lefthand side of a logical short circuit. Dave	[reply]

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