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On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:28:23 -0700, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote: > Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> wrote > on Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:24:15 +0100: > > >> 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. > > The compromise that Larry and I came up with is that I got to keep > my parens and he got to keep his "or die". > > The only remaining problem is that that breaks the lovely parallelism > of "|| die" on false and "// die" on undef. > > my $line = <STDIN> // die "no input on stdin"; > my $kidpid = open(CHILD, "|-") // die "cannot fork: $!"; /me is in favor of bringing back the dor (or err) keyword! (not joking) -- 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