On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 04:44:04PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote: > Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > >>$x = $Value | 'Default'; > >>instead of : > >>$x = $Value || 'Default'; > > > > > >Hmm, this is an interesting point. I'll let others chime in here, > >as I don't have a good answer (nor am I at all authoritative on junctions). > > This is merely syntax; it doesn't really have anything to do with junctions > per se. > > Besides which, both those syntaxes are *already* valid in Perl 5. And yet > people don't commonly make this mistake now. Why would they make it more > frequently when | produces a junction instead?
Thanks, that's what I was looking for. Sorry I didn't catch it sooner. :-) Pm
