in reply to Truth & Whitespace

A module may be overkill when you can just use an operator 
$name = ( defined $nickname ) ? $nickname :
        ( defined $salutation and defined $last_name )
        ? "$saltutation $last_name" : 'Guest';

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See. ?: (trinary conditional operator) in perlop.
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Re: Re: Truth & Whitespace
by PodMaster (Abbot) on May 02, 2003 at 19:25 UTC
    I'd much rather write that as 
    $name = defined $nickname
        ? $nickname
        : defined $salutation && defined $last_name
            ? "$salutation $last_name"
            : 'Guest';

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    In my opinion it's much more pretty readable (and pretty) ;)

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