in reply to Weird syntax question

print always succeeds (for a suitable definition of 'always'), i.e. print 0; returns 1.

$ perl -e 'print print 0'
01$

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Update: I should also say that the short-circuit behavior of or omits the print 0 clause when $x is true.

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Zaxo

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Re (tilly) 2: Weird syntax question
by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 23, 2001 at 03:45 UTC 
    perl -e 'print qq(Gotcha!\n) unless print STDIN qq(Hello)'

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    All interactions with the system have the possibility of failure...
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