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On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:24:15 +0100, Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> wrote: > David Golden <xdg@xdg.me> writes: > > > I strongly favor showing "or die..." instead of "|| die..." because > > the lower precedence operator is safer should parentheses be omitted. > > I second this preference, but for a different reason: I advice people to > use || for expressions, and or for statements. Although technically > speaking all (well, most) statements are also expressions, it is more > intuitive to mentally make the distinction where appropriate. ++ to that -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.17 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next