Hi

Can someone please explain this behavior. I was surprised with result of the following code. (And please help me come up with a better Title for this question)

I think the variable $test should be set to $val1 (1) but instead it gets set to $val2 (undef)

#/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $test;
$test = 1 || (undef && undef != 0) ? undef : 0; 

print "test = $test\n";

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OUTPUT:
test =

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-----BEGIN PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 0.01 P++>*$c--->---P6 > R >++++$M+>+++$O+++>+++$MA->+++$E > PU->++BD->-C+>+$D+>+$S->+++X >+WP >+++MO!PP n?CO--PO!>!(!)o?G!A--OLC--OLCC--OLJ--Ee !Ev-Eon-uL++>*uB!uS!uH-uo!w->!m+ ------END PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK------

In reply to Mixing OR with conditional operator by jockel

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