RE³: if-else vs. tertiary effieciency?

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so the print isnt part of the ?: in fruiture's example...if thats the case then it makes beautiful sense and i cant believe i didnt see it before, if thats not the case im a little more lost than i was to begin with :)

ill be sure to ++ you when i get my next set of votes ;)

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Re^4: if-else vs. tertiary effieciency? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 15, 2002 at 07:43 UTC
If in doubt, deparse: `$ perl -MO=Deparse,-p -e'print $var ? "yes" : "no";' print(($var ? 'yes' : 'no')); -e syntax OK` [download] The ternary operator here has a higher precedence than the `print` that works as a list operator, so Perl does the right thing. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]

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