[sf-perl] Odd behavior for dot operator?

[Andrew Sigmund]

Yup, that was the problem.  I verified that the precedence of the dot operator is higher than that of the conditional operator.
So, by default, I was getting
$x = ( 'a' . (defined $y) )? $y ....  which is always true, so perl was trying to actually use the undefined $y, and thus gave me the warning.

Thanks Francisco.

Andy



-----Original Message-----
From: Francisco Obispo [mailto:fobispo at isc.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 23:03
To: Andrew Sigmund
Cc: SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [sf-perl] Odd behavior for dot operator?

the problem is the precedence or the operators.

Try:

$x = 'a' . ( (defined $y) ? $y :'undef' ."\n");  # now I try to put something up front
print $x;




On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:55 PM, Andrew Sigmund wrote:

> $x = 'a' . (defined $y)? $y :'undef' ."\n";  # now I try to put something up front
> print $x;

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