Re: RFC 82 (listops in list context)

[Damien Neil]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 11:15:03PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> No, || is half-consistent at the moment: the left hand side is forced into 
> scalar context but the result context propagates down the right hand 
> side.  I challenge anyone to come up with a rationalization for this that 
> does not invoke implementation expediency.

By extension with

  $a = $a || "default";

you get

  @a = @a || qw(default values);

                   - Damien