If you wanted to use List::Util::first for AND and OR, these work: 
sub AND {
    my $last;
    first {!($last = $_)} @_ or $last;
}

sub OR {
    my $last;
    first {($last = $_)} @_ and $last;
}

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Again, the little bit of yin-yang.

I note that the short-circuiting you mention isn't quite as good as the short-circuiting you get with the actual operators, since each element of the list will be evaluated prior to calling the function. So you don't have to traverse the entire list, but any function calls and assignments within the list will be executed.

I note also that you're just exchanging the && operator for a comma (plus the function calling semantics). I had thought that overloading the comma operator would be a clever alternative, but it turns out not to be overloadable.

Our functional-programming brethren might prefer the tail-recursive 

sub OR {
    @_ > 1 ? shift || OR(@_) : shift;
}

sub AND {
    @_ > 1 ? shift && AND(@_) : shift;
}

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Update: tail-recursive ones were buggy.
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In reply to Re: An infix fix by Roy Johnson
in thread An infix fix by tlm

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