in reply to Re^3: Short form (ternary) if else
in thread Short form (ternary) if else

ok I think I get it. It returns a value if true, else return value if false. It does not execute code if true or code if false. Is that a correct statement?

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Re^5: Short form (ternary) if else
by Riales (Hermit) on Feb 08, 2012 at 22:22 UTC
    Wrong, it can indeed execute code: 
    sub foo1 { print "Hello, World!\n"; }
sub foo2 { print "Goodbye, World!\n"; }

1 ? foo1() : foo2();
0 ? foo1() : foo2();

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    This prints: 
    Hello, World!
Goodbye, World!

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    I think what you're confused about is still scope; like the if/else block in the original post, if you declare my $vxdg inside the ternary operator, it will fall out of scope before you try to access it again.
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