The proper way to open()

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 01:34:05PM +0000, Smylers wrote:

> Until I started using Perl I'd only ever seen an OR operator (however
> spelt) used for combining boolean expressions, such as:
> 
>   if (!$awoke || $booted > $awoke)
> 
> The concept of 'or if that command failed, here's what to do instead'
> was new to me. I liked it, and that there was an operator for it.

This concept will be familiar to shell programmers.  I wonder whether it
is older than that though.  Does anyone have any earlier examples?

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