[ID 20010306.004] || != named unary operator

This is a bug report for perl from Jerome.Abela@free.Fr,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.


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perlop says:
>     but, because * is higher precedence than ||:
>         chdir $foo * 20;    # chdir ($foo * 20)
>         chdir($foo) * 20;   # (chdir $foo) * 20

It should be:

    but, because * is higher precedence than named unary operators:

Oh, by the way, is perlbug the correct way to submit minor
corrections to perl docs ?


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Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:

Configured by pixel at Fri Mar 31 16:32:49 CEST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.15-0.16mdksmp, archname=i386-linux
    uname='linux kenobi.mandrakesoft.com 2.2.15-0.16mdksmp #1 smp mon mar 13 16:40:10 cet 2000 i686 unknown '
    config_args='-des -Dprefix=/usr -Darchname=i386-linux -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Ud_csh -Dman3dir=/usr/lib/perl5/man/man3 -Doptimize=-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define 
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations', gccversion=2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing'
    ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.1.3.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.6.0:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
    HOME=/home/abela
    LANG=fr
    LANGUAGE=fr
    LC_ALL=fr_FR
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/abela/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

• [ID 20010306.004] || != named unary operator by abela
• Re: [ID 20010306.004] || != named unary operator by Jarkko Hietaniemi
• Re: [ID 20010306.004] || != named unary operator by Jerome Abela
• Re: [ID 20010306.004] || != named unary operator by Jarkko Hietaniemi
• Re: [ID 20010306.004] || != named unary operator by H . Merijn Brand