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Re: Re: Cheap idioms
in thread Cheap idioms
Ah, but you're wrong. In a simple list, as perlop explicitly states, operands are evaluated left-to-right. Otherwise, you couldn't write
print("Done.\n"), exit if $done;
either, but we all know that it works, right? Your example is problematic because is uses pre- and postincrement operators which mess with the order of side effects.
IO::Handle loads over 1,000 lines of code - if it's just for a single autoflush, what's the point? Especially seeing as the select idiom is known and even delivered with the perldocs, it's safe to assume it isn't cryptic.
Makeshifts last the longest.