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On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:26:23AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote: > I don't read function calls without a ) as having their arguments terminated. > The ) || works much, much, much better for me. > > I always use ||. Always. And I do *not* make precedence errors, because > even if I forgot them, I also always use ). Wouldn't that usage of "||" instead of "or" be a personal idiosyncrasy, then? (Presumably an artifact of your C background?) I'm agnostic about the readability, but as a language construct, "or" is more appropriate. FWIW, I also always use parens around the arguments to open, for much the same reasons that you do (though I don't typically use parens for "close"). But I always use low-precedence "or" because the "or die" idiom was drilled into my head by Perl canon literature. open(my $fh, '<', 'foo.txt') or die $!; ... close $fh or die $!; So even if we don't strip the parens, what's wrong with using "or" instead of "||"? Marvin HumphreyThread Previous | Thread Next