precedence

[C. Abney]

~sdpm~
[mailed and posted]

On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Alan Stewart wrote:

> The unless doesn't bind left or right, it modifies the entire preceeding statement.
> 
>    $ERR or warn "gah!\n" unless $FOO;
> 
> is the same as
> 
>    unless ($FOO) {$ERR or warn "gah!\n"}

Ok, but then isn't the 'unless' subject to precedence?  I suppose not
if the compiler is just doing its best with a hacked up line.  I'm 
going to start avoiding compound xxx unless yyy constructs then, they
just screw up readability (for me.)

> and Perl does what I expect :)

so I need to do a little editing... and maybe rewrite the test so I
can actually test if the flow even enters the critical part...

CA
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