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Re: [Omaha.pm] Another || quickie


On Aug 18, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Andy Lester wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:52:59PM -0500, Jay Hannah (jhannah@omnihotels.com) wrote: 

BEFORE

  my $type = "error";
  $type = $args{type} if ($args{type});

AFTER

  my $type = $args{type} || "error";


Which is fine unless $args{type} is 0. :-/
Ya, 0 catches me on occasion. In this case, though, BEFORE and AFTER would both handle 0 the same way, correct? 


Future Perls introduce the // operator, which does what you mean.


Oooo... Is there a :-/ operator too? That looks fancy. -grin-

j
:)