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Quoting "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> from ml.lang.perl.porters: :On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 09:24:39 -0600, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote: :> In-Reply-To: Message from Marvin Humphrey <marvin@rectangular.com> :> > Wouldn't that usage of "||" instead of "or" be a personal idiosyncrasy, :> > then? :> :> I doubt it's all that personal. : :I agree. Not that I take the same road as Tom everywhere, but the perl :documentation is not something personal. It is written for ALL users. :Novices and experts. As this thread already has proven that minds don't :think alike, there is very clearly not a `better' way to write || or or :to make things safer or more readable. : :I use both. Tom uses parens and ||, and Jari uses or. Lets keep the :versatility in the docs. The current docs are not wrong. I think documentation should not be versatile, otherwise newcomers are going to wonder why one has to use "||" and when "or" is preferable. Seeing both used in different contexts could even lead people to believe they are fully interchangeable, at will. Which is not true. Personnally, I've always disliked "and" and "or" and never used them. I prefer to put parentheses to delimit the argument list visually, so the precedence never bites me. Also I prefer to see arithmetical and logical operators stand out as punctuation signs (i.e. be non-words). Would you like to have things like "plus" and "minus"? $a = 1 plus 2; Very readable as a sentence, awful as a programming statement. Cheers, RaphaelThread Previous | Thread Next