Hi Troy,
No, the 'or' operator is better. A rule of thumb is that you should use
'or' when you mean to control process flow, and '||' when you mean to
perform boolean arithmetic. That usually seems to make things read
best, but of course there are exceptions.
The reason I wouldn't use '||' in this case is that I'd have to think
hard about whether it would mean
(system(...) == 0) || die "...";
or
system(...) == (0 || die "...");
, but with 'or' it's obvious.
-Ken
On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 09:26 AM, Troy Davis wrote:
> Isn't the || operator appropriate in a case like this? (instead of
> 'or')
>
> Ken wrote:
>> system ("/Users/username/perl_dir/perl_script --flags
>> other_arguments") == 0
>> or die "script failed: $?";
