[tpm] Is there a three-way version of...

Shaun Fryer sfryer at sourcery.ca
Sat May 30 11:30:37 PDT 2009


>>        The "||", "//" and "&&" operators return the last value evaluated
>>        (unlike C’s "||" and "&&", which return 0 or 1).

>    $foo = $opt{foo} || $ENV{PROG_FOO} || $rc_opts{foo} || 'default';

This is interesting. I learned something new. Now I'm personally
curious if there's an operator that instead of doing "or equals", does
"equals or". For instance, I find myself doing this alot (particularly
in accessors/setters)...

$x = $y if defined $y;

What would be helpful is to be able to do this instead.

$x =|| $y;

Or even better...

$x =// $y;

Shaun Fryer


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