Guay Jean-Sébastien wrote: > > There is no problem syntactically. But there is a problem with the > precdence. If you ever have another operation on either the left or right > side of the || operator, the || operator will bind tighter than the other > operation. So for example, if you do: > > my $errors = 0; > open (CRITICALSERVERS, "$crout") || $errors += 2; > > that will translate to: > > my $errors = 0; > ( open (CRITICALSERVERS, "$crout") || $errors ) += 2;
Nope. Please credit the Perl interpreter with some common sense. There are few, if any, instances where Perl would override explicit parentheses, and does not in this case. To illustrate, I restore the parens to the example I used in a parallel response: Greetings! E:\d_drive\perlStuff>perl -w open (CRITICALSERVERS, 'crout') || die "can't open file \n: $!"; close CRITICALSERVERS; ^Z can't open file : No such file or directory at - line 1. In most cases, Perl will do the right thing with statements expressed in natural form. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
