DCPM: Little syntax query

[Simon Waters]

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On Wednesday 03 December 2003 7:52 pm, Neil Williams wrote:
> perl -e '$asyncz = 1; $asyncz ? $port = 5 : $port = 3; print $port;

I think you want.....

perl -e ' $asyncz=1 ; $port = $asyncz ? 5 : 3 ; print $port,"\n";'

Ah "man perlop" covers your very example - RTFM ;)

$asyncz ? $port = 5 : $port = 3; 

becomes either ($port = 5) = 3;
		or      $port = 3;

Ternary operator would be high on my list of things not to allow if I were 
writing computer language style guides - I can say this as I learnt Fortran. 
Fortran didn't have many features as a language and we still use to condemn 
this one!!!!

Consider the most readable solution, if/else is usually quite readable ;) 
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