Re: REGEXP removing - il- - -b-f and - il- - - - f

Am Freitag, 29. April 2005 14.43 schrieb DBSMITH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> So which is safer more ideal to use : || , or
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> Derek B. Smith
> OhioHealth IT
> UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams
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The only difference between "||" and "or" is the precedence, and the
precedence of "=" lies between them.

To my understanding, in the "assign or die" special case,

my $a=do_something_which_can_fail() or handle_exception();

is more logic than

my $a=do_something_which_can_fail() || handle_exception();

because something should be assigned to $a, and if that fails, the app should
e.g. die. This way, the exception handling is not part of the assignement.

On the other side, I would use

my $a=do_something_which_can_fail() || provide_some_default();

because the exception handling consists of providing a value.

Just my personal way to look at it :-)

joe
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