which to me looks like:

$OPER = 's' = 'c';

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when $test ne 'c' is true. And that should fail with a "Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment" error. However no errors and no warnings are generated for either condition.

Using ?: to select a variable to be assigned to I'm happy with:

test ? $p1 : $p2 = value;

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but the half assignement variant implied by the precedence (and made explicit by the brackets shown in your reply) is just bizare.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re^3: ternary operator by GrandFather
in thread ternary operator by pglenski

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