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>Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com (Raphael Manfredi) writes: >> Quoting "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> from ml.lang.perl.porters: >>> 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. > I wouldn't consider that example comparable. The "logical operators" are > a different mathematical concept from basic operations like "+ - / *". > Compare: > truth OR truth > expression PLUS expression Yes, and? I completely see Raphael's points. That's how I think, too. --tomThread Previous | Thread Next