[tpm] Stupid question time!

Alexandru Capsa alexcapsa at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 13:00:31 PST 2010


A quick look at operator precedence can help

http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlop.html

the brackets help you override that precedence so they can change the logic.

Alex


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Madison Kelly <linux at alteeve.com> wrote:

> What is the difference between:
>
> if (not $foo && $bar ne "") {}
> if ((not $foo) && ($bar ne "")) {}
>
> I assumed it was mainly an aesthetic/readability thing, but I realize that
> no, it's logically different. Thanks for enlightening me?
>
> Madi
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