Re^6: Situation where warning "Found = in conditional, should be" seems obsolete (documentation

in reply to Re^5: Situation where warning "Found = in conditional, should be" seems obsolete (documentation - C terminology)
in thread Situation where warning "Found = in conditional, should be" seems obsolete

> Do && and || short-circuit in C?

Yes, and Perl introduce and and or as low precedence alternatives.

> The long discussion

yes we had this before

simple example

  DB<226> p do { unless (42) {  } }
42
  DB<227>
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Please keep in mind that "ternary operator" is not correct either, since it's a mathematical term classifying a whole family of operators with 3 operands. ? : is just the only ternary one in these languages.

Cheers Rolf
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