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in reply to What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?

Err, shouldn't this just be -//>?
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Re^2: What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing? (! //)
by tye (Sage) on Jun 04, 2012 at 19:26 UTC

    -//> would be "de-ref if undefined" while what is being proposed is "de-ref if defined".

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Re^2: What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 04, 2012 at 17:48 UTC
    That's valid syntax. "Is the negation of the match result greater than ..." That might not be a problem, though.
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