Perl evaluates left to right

While it's certainly true that the short-circuit operators in Perl are left-to-right, which is what the OP mostly wanted to know at the moment, it might be saying to much to say that Perl evaluates left-to-right. It depends on your operators... 

  print for map { $$_[0] } sort {
    lc $a->{name} cmp lc $b->{name}
  } grep { ref $_ } map {
    [$_, dblookup($_)]
  } <STDIN> unless grep {
    /--ignorestdin/
  } @ARGV;

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Admittedly, the above is _somewhat_ atypical code.

;$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}} split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$;[-1]->();print

In reply to Re^2: In what order is a compound IF evaluated? by jonadab
in thread In what order is a compound IF evaluated? by Anonymous Monk

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