> On Nov 24, 2018, at 12:49 PM, David Precious wrote:
>
> I went to perldoc perlop expecting to be able to find a
> section to point the OP at as a "here's the documentation for it", and
> couldn't find anything particularly useful.
I was able to find this in “perldoc perlop”:
Assignment
On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:33:25 -0800
"John W. Krahn" wrote:
> On 2018-11-22 8:08 a.m., David Precious wrote:
> >
> >
> > You'll often see these operators used to provide default values.
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> >sub hello {
> >my $name = shift;
> >$name ||= 'Anonymous Person';
