Thanks to everyone for their help! It's been very enlightening! Stan
On Apr 4, 2012, at 4:51 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > 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/
