yes, readability at first is a problem with Mr. Ternary... i can't get wrong with that... but as often you use the ternary operator becomes handy. but wait my delima was this "\&". what was that execption for in the strict pragma?

I think it is your dilemma, and yes: I had never seen it. Indeed, had you asked me, I would have guessed it was no valid syntax at all. And while I'm far from being a guru myself, I've seen quite a lot of code over the years, from gurus too. However reasoning on it a little, it's easy to see it simply amounts to taking a real reference after taking a symbolic dereference. The exception perldoc strict talks about is that that particular symbolic dereference, in that situation, doesn't issue an error, while it would in all the other situations:

C:\temp>perl -wMstrict -e "\&{'foo'}"
Useless use of reference constructor in void context at -e line 1.

C:\temp>perl -wMstrict -e "&{'foo'}"
Can't use string ("foo") as a subroutine ref while "strict refs" in us
+e at -e line 1.

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Why you think you can use that instead of eval is completely out of my comprehension. The semantics is completely different.

In reply to Re^3: Mr. Ternary is greater than Mrs. If Else by blazar
in thread Mr. Ternary is greater than Mrs. If Else by PerlPhi

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