On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:42:33AM -0700, Paul wrote:
> If you use "or" instead of "||" you can reduce the "line noise" by
> taking out the parens.
>
> open(FILE, $filename)
> || die("Unable to open file \"$filename\": \l$!.\n");
>
> becomes
>
> open FILE, $filename
> or die "Unable to open file \"$filename\": \l$!.\n";
Personally, I prefer the "noisy" version, though I consider it anything but
noisy. Perhaps it's because 'or' came sometime after I learned Perl, but
mostly it's because it serves to delineate what's what. This may be an
artifact of my C experience, or my penchant to use parens in order to give
visual seperation from one function call to another.
TIMTOWTDI
Michael
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