in reply to Bogus warning for low priority or, or something subtle

or has a lower precedence than =. Thus, your statement is parsed as (my $baz = $foo) or ($bar). Try changing $foo to 0 and see if you get what you think you should get.

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Re^2: Bogus warning for low priority or, or something subtle
by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 05, 2005 at 04:04 UTC

    Something subtle then. I obviously don't read the Precedence chart often enough :)

    Thank you Tanktalus

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