Re^2: Question about ternary operator

The problem is that the assignment has a looser precedence than the ternary op.

Shouldn't then the OP's program had reported a syntax error?

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Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

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Re^3: Question about ternary operator by moritz (Cardinal) on Jul 01, 2009 at 11:54 UTC
No: `$ perl -MO=Deparse,-p -e '1 ? $a = 3 : $b = 4' (($a = 3) = 4); -e syntax OK` [download] You see it is parsed, not just the way you'd naively expect it.	[reply] [d/l]