Re^4: If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be:

Is this what Perl's or-equals or defined-or-equals operators are for?

$foo     ||= barf->new();
$foo     ||= gazonkly();
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or to only test undef:

$foo     //= barf->new();
$foo     //= gazonkly();
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