Re^3: What is the difference between |= and ||=?

Please consider using the cleaner perl5.10 variant //= if you expect $some_ref->{id} to be nonexistent / not defined. $some_href->{id} //= 0 This makes it explicit that you only want to set id when it was not defined before. Then the truthy, falsy nature of '', 0 and other variants is no longer of concern.

print+qq(\L@{[ref\&@]}@{['@'x7^'!#2/"!4']});

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Re^4: What is the difference between \|= and \|\|=? by DrHyde (Prior) on Apr 08, 2009 at 09:40 UTC
Please don't, unless you can be sure that all your users are on perl 5.10. Remember, 5.10 is still very new, and given that it's 5.10.0 lots of people will be ignoring it and waiting for 5.10.1, as .0 releases of software are commonly seen as being not really ready for serious use.	[reply]
Re^4: What is the difference between \|= and \|\|=? by Anonymous Monk on Apr 08, 2009 at 04:53 UTC
Ah, I see. Thanks :) It's exactly what I need in a few cases. But...hm...the shared server isn't using 5.10 :(	[reply]