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in thread Perl bug ?

I would expect the result of the && operation to be passed.
yes, and the result of something_false && something is something_false. the second part is never processed.

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Re^8: Perl bug ?
by choroba (Cardinal) on Feb 06, 2013 at 13:32 UTC
    Oh, I see! Thanks for enlightening me.
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      Maybe the confusing thing is, that not the value of $errors is the result (undef), but $errors itself, so it will be used as an alias to the subroutine. (maybe that wasn't expressed correctly but I hope it's clear what I mean)
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Re^8: Perl bug ?
by vsespb (Chaplain) on Feb 06, 2013 at 14:58 UTC
    Now I get it, thanks. Agree. That's probably most amazing way to shut yourself 3 times in one line of Perl.
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