You know better than that.

Yes, I know it doesn't generalize. I never said it did.

(For those who don't know better, we're talking about operand evaluation order, which Perl doesn't document except for the comma operator.)

You implied a readability problem. (It makes you wonder.) Previous discussions here have shown there's two kinds of unreadability. Unreadability from lack of knowledge, and unreadability from ambiguities and the like.

There is no ambiguity in the code. It does exactly what one thinks it should do.

That left being afraid of learning an operator you already use roughly every second line. I didn't mean to imply you were too dumb to learn it.

In reply to Re^7: how to write a modified return() call? by ikegami
in thread how to write a modified return() call? by leocharre

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