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Very nice, ++

However, I have a small question on this snippet:

my $thing = shift;
$thing ||= 'default' unless defined $thing;

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Surely the || is redundant here?

my $thing = shift;
$thing = 'default' unless defined $thing;

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This seems to do the job just as well?

Or am I missing something?

thx

dave

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