Re: chaining defines

[email protected] (Peter Scott)
Newsgroups perl.beginners
Organization Pacific Systems Design Technologies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 06 May 2008 18:04:00 +0200, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> From: Robert Hicks <[email protected]>
>> Is there anything wrong with:
>> 
>> if ( defined $one && defined $two && $one eq $two ) {
>>     #### do something
>> }
> 
> As far as I can tell not. I was afraid the operator precedence might 
> play tricks with it, but looks like it doesn't:
> 
> V:\>perl -MO=Deparse -e "defined $one && defined $two && $one eq 
> $two"
> $one eq $two if defined $one and defined $two;
> -e syntax OK

A bit more explicitly (and interestingly different):

$ perl -MO=Deparse,-p -e 'defined $one && defined $two && $one eq $two'
((defined($one) and defined($two)) and ($one eq $two));
-e syntax OK

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Peter Scott
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