in reply to Re: Ternary if versus normal if question
in thread Ternary if versus normal if question

Thanks very much to you and all those who clarified the ternary if to me. However, what is meant by the C in C<?:>? Is that shorthand for some concept?

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Re^3: Ternary if versus normal if question
by blazar (Canon) on Nov 18, 2005 at 12:18 UTC
    It's the pod format of Perl documentation. Apart that, it is also used in ASCII contexts to visually mark code, but I generally avoid it here since whe have <code> tags anyway. In this situation, however, it seemed to me to be too be too short and confusing, so I added that pseudo-markup.