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in reply to Re^3: If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be:
in thread If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be:

Is this what Perl's or-equals or defined-or-equals operators are for?
$foo ||= barf->new(); $foo ||= gazonkly();
or to only test undef:
$foo //= barf->new(); $foo //= gazonkly();