>>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bryan> Is there an "&&=" also? How about "or="?
There's an &&=, and I thought I'd never use it.
However, one day, I realized that I needed to "normalize" the "true/false"
value of a variable, because I wanted to reduce all possible true/false
values to just 1/0 for easy operations in the next step of the program.
And I came up with this:
$variable ||= 0; # all false values become 0
$variable &&= 1; # all true values become 1
OK, so it's weird. :) I could have just as easy had said:
$variable = ($variable ? 1 : 0);
But the actual case of needing &&= was cool.
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