Hi fellow monks,

We would like to write our own operand, an or that is based on if the first value is defined rather than if it is false or not. We were wondering if there is a way to create one's own operands. We see how to override one and know that or is not one we can override. We really just want to create our own.
We also know we can do:
defined( $foo = $bar->id ) or $self->error('blah blah')

What we want to be able to do is:
$foo = $bar->id definedor $self->error('blah blah')

Thanks for any advise.

Note: Thanks to jdporter for the advise but we are running 5.6.1 on our server and that does not work.

20060715 Unconsidered by Corion (Keep: 11, Edit: 15, Reap: 0): Was considered for : Retitle: create 'defined-or' (nav, search improvement)

In reply to creating operands by pvilleSE

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