Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

[David Matthewman]

On 9 Jun 2011, at 15:16, David Landgren wrote:

> I had all the parts lying around, but didn't realise they were germane to the problem. So, thanks for the cogent explanation.

You're welcome. ;-)

This effect means that:

  if (!something)

and

  unless(something)

don't do the same thing either, whereas from the 'overloaded operator' point-of-view *as far as I can tell* they do the same thing. The 'unless' statement runs the overloaded '!' subroutine of the class in question, as opposed to doing a 'bool' conversion on the class and doing a logical NOT on the result of that, which is the other thing it *might* be expected to do.

I just wrote a class to check this. It claims that everything is true (especially the lies), and is called 'Garak', ;-)

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David Matthewman