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On 11/29/2010 1:32 PM, David Golden wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com> wrote: >> "If the dereference of the left hand side succeeds, then do the lookup >> on the right hand side and continue on your way", which made "->?" >> seem quite sensible to me. It was asking and answering a question about >> the dereferencing operation. >> >> I believe that Zefram is of the opinion that what we're looking for is >> "If the left hand side is defined, then try to dereference >> it and explode or continue on your way as indicated." - Which certainly >> makes pushing the conditional (?->) to the left make more sense. > I understood it to be this: > > $lhs OP $rhs === defined($lhs) ? $lhs->$rhs : undef > > I.e. just return "undef" (and don't explode) if the dereference would > fail, otherwise, go ahead and do the dereference. Sorry to <aol/> but .. yeah, this.Thread Previous | Thread Next