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| author | Paul Johnson <paul@pjcj.net> | 2006-04-27 00:38:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-05-04 09:43:51 +0000 |
| commit | ed5c6d3178e1e8ac8ebd6338b381c51c4a46b187 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b91c1541786d48be03d71aed7a8ce42a0862c36 /pod/perlop.pod | |
| parent | 1fafdf3440acc2b1414f3a7530f0b4ae574e92f4 (diff) | |
| download | perl-ed5c6d3178e1e8ac8ebd6338b381c51c4a46b187.tar.gz | |
Document order of evaluation for the comma operator
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Message-ID: <20060426203843.GE21543@pjcj.net>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@28092
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diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index 1dc62f4926..4c3d919c2e 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -752,7 +752,8 @@ its left argument, throws that value away, then evaluates its right argument and returns that value. This is just like C's comma operator. In list context, it's just the list argument separator, and inserts -both its arguments into the list. +both its arguments into the list. These arguments are also evaluated +from left to right. The C<< => >> operator is a synonym for the comma, but forces any word (consisting entirely of word characters) to its left to be interpreted |