Hi all, inspired by this thread, I’ve added this item in my “Perl Elements to Avoid” page:
http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/#ternary_operator_instead_of_if_else I added it directly below the item about using map instead of foreach for side-effects, which exhibits a similar misunderstanding. Thanks to the original poster and all the people who replied. Regards, Shlomi Fish On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 17:39:10 -0400 "Stan N/A" <stan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've run into a weird issue where the ternary operator isn't doing > what I believe it normally would and need some help understanding the > issue. I'm sure I'm missing some critical point, but perhaps this is > an issue with perl. Here's a short 14 line script exemplifying the > issue: [SNIP] -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - http://shlom.in/enemy <mst> I find it’s usually safe to assume that whatever shlomif’s doing, there isn’t a good reason for it. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
