[Omaha.pm] Another || quickie

[Jay Hannah]

On Aug 18, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Andy Lester wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:52:59PM -0500, Jay Hannah 
> (jhannah at omnihotels.com) wrote:
>>
>> BEFORE
>>
>>   my $type = "error";
>>   $type = $args{type} if ($args{type});
>>
>> AFTER
>>
>>   my $type = $args{type} || "error";
>
> Which is fine unless $args{type} is 0. :-/

Ya, 0 catches me on occasion. In this case, though, BEFORE and AFTER 
would both handle 0 the same way, correct?

> Future Perls introduce the // operator, which does what you mean.

Oooo... Is there a :-/ operator too? That looks fancy. -grin-

j
:)