I am sorry, the code that actually solves the outlined problem is the following. You can enter prefix boolean expressions in brackets ( "[and, a, [==, b, [!, c]]]" ).
After you entered the first valid expression, you may instead add new expressions as "</code>or, d" which will be applied to the previous expression. Entering "<code>!" negates the current expression. 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Parse::RecDescent;

my $grammar = <<'GRAMMAR';

boolean_expr:   '[' /and|or|==/ ',' boolean_expr ',' boolean_expr ']'
                { [ $item[2], $item[4], $item[6] ] }
              | '[' '!' ',' boolean_expr ']'
                { [ '!', $item[4] ] }
              | /and|or|==/ ',' boolean_expr
                { [ $item[1], $item[3] ] }
              | '!'
              | terminal
                { $item[1] }
              | <error>

terminal:       /\w+/                           { $item[1] }

GRAMMAR

my $parser = Parse::RecDescent->new($grammar);

my $old;

while (<STDIN>) {
        chomp;
        my $parsed = $parser->boolean_expr($_);
        next unless defined $parsed;
        if (ref $parsed eq 'ARRAY'
                and @$parsed == 2
                and $parsed->[0] =~ /and|or|==/ )
        {
                warn("Cannot add clause if no "
                     . "starting term was defined."), next
                  if not defined $old;

                $old = [$parsed->[0], $old, $parsed->[1]];
        }
        elsif ($parsed eq '!') {
                warn("Cannot add clause if no "
                     . "starting term was defined."), next
                  if not defined $old;

                $old = ['!', $old];
        }
        else {
                $old = $parsed;
        }
        print Dumper $old;
}

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Update: Fixed line breaks for display.

Steffen

In reply to Re: Re: prefix notation in an array by tsee
in thread prefix notation in an array by amw1

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