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H.Merijn Brand wrote on 11 August:
>
> Consistency. Essentially, when // was introduced, the low-level
> operator was forgotten.
>
> In my life as perl user I have never ever needed or used xor, but I
> have used err while it was defined many many times. It is about making
> easy (but ugly) things even easier and more consistent.
Considering
defined $foo or next;
and
$foo dor next;
the former seems much more clean and readable to me. `dor` or `dand` aren't terms that are really established anywhere AFAIK (unlike `xor`, which has been around forever). And `err` is misleading. However, the following doesn't assign the value of $foo; you'd need `dor` or `//` for that:
my $bar = defined $foo or next;
So `dor` does add some small value to Perl. I just don't much like the name. I'm wondering if the operator could be named `definedor` instead, or if perhaps the following construct (which is currently a compile error) should be treated specially:
my $bar = $foo defined or next;
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Arne Johannessen
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