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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: perl man page (bugs and enhancements) - yet another opinion
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Date: 16 Aug 90 14:51:38 GMT
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The manual reads:

    precedence, just like a normal function call.  Examples:

         chdir $foo || die;       # (chdir $foo) || die
         chdir($foo) || die;      # (chdir $foo) || die
         chdir ($foo) || die;     # (chdir $foo) || die
         chdir +($foo) || die;    # (chdir $foo) || die

    but, because * is higher precedence than ||:

         chdir $foo * 20;         # chdir ($foo * 20)
         chdir($foo) * 20;        # (chdir $foo) * 20
         chdir ($foo) * 20;       # (chdir $foo) * 20
         chdir +($foo) * 20;      # chdir ($foo * 20)

Shouldn't the first one have the comment "because chdir is higher
precedence than ||", and the second "because * is higher precedence
than chdir"?  To the naive, it's not immediately obvious why "chdir
$foo || die" is parsed differently than "chdir $f00 * 20".

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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