ikegami++ for the quick reply! Update: Thanks for answering some of this while I was typing it in

My areas of confusion span the far reaches of the known universe, however for this problem, I can live with just 3 :-)

I'm interested to understand why the '|' math operation decided to return a 3 for me, when given two non-numbers to operate on. This was the fun part.

Thanks for the precedence pointer - I always seem to forget about that (duh - basic stuff)...

The context confusion is the key - thanks for untangling my knotted mind. I see that this works: 

my @list2 = @{$c->bbox('all') || (1,2,3)};

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However, this won't work when the canvas is empty. Is there a way to write this that will work for both empty and non-empty canvas?

Thanks

-Craig

In reply to Re^2: 'or' versus '||' - Unexpected Results by cmv
in thread 'or' versus '||' - Unexpected Results by cmv

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