Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!convex!usenet From: Tom Christiansen Subject: Re: Ruminations on the future of Perl Message-ID: <1991Jun30.224532.23556@convex.com> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX References: <1991Jun28.212606.19054@convex.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1991 22:45:32 GMT Lines: 20 From the keyboard of rodney@dali.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II): :In article rusty@groan.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright) writes: :>Similarly, in the "Syntax" section are examples for opening "foo" and :>dying if it can't be opened, with the classic :> :> open(foo) || die "Can't open $foo: $!"; :> :>(but which I find to be just hackeritis show-off). : :I don't understand -- I use this all the time. really. what's the :problem? Perhaps those folks not heavily into shell programming do not take well to using && and || for flow control. But those who are, do, and are glad it's there. --tom -- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist "So much mail, so little time."