in reply to Re: "or die" versus "|| die"
in thread "or die" versus "|| die"
Just because you're invoking die after an || or a or doesn't mean you don't have to think about precedence. Consider the following:
somesub $this, $that || die;
If you use 'or' here, you'll die upon failure of somesub (assuming it returns false to indicate failure). If you use ||, you'll die if $that is false. Big difference.
Dave
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Re^3: "or die" versus "|| die"
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 24, 2005 at 20:30 UTC |
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