Well, I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

The point of formatting one's code is to make the meaning clear to the reader. This reader finds: 

return ( ( $status == 0 ) ? 0 : 1 );  # Readable, clear.
return $status == 0 ? 0 : 1;          # Confusing. Precedence?

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I *think* I know what the second line does, but I'm not 100% sure. Blame my 15 years of programming in C, but I have to use brackets when I write a return statement. If that means I'm writing C in Perl, so be it.

I also like to put brackets around a conditional, to highlight that there's a logic test going on. I know that operator precedence will take care of it without brackets, but why strain my brain.

Really, this is a tempest in a teapot. My Dad had a wonderful sentence that he claimed made sense, if only it were punctuated correctly: Smith, where Jones had had had had had had had had had had had the examiner's approval. Perfectly understandable: no punctuation is necessary, is it?

--t. alex
but my friends call me T.

In reply to Re(3): variable set to 0 ? 0 : 1 by talexb
in thread variable set to 0 ? 0 : 1 by c

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