Logical And Binary "and" returns the logical conjunction of the two surrounding expressions
C-style Logical And Binary "&&" performs a short-circuit logical AND operation.
Symbolic Unary Operators Unary "!" performs logical negation, that is, "not". See also
C-style Logical Or Binary "||" performs a short-circuit logical OR operation. That is, if
The Arrow Operator "-> " is an infix dereference operator, just as it is in C and C++. If the right side is
Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or Binary "|" returns its operands ORed together bit by bit.
Operator Precedence and Associativity Operator precedence and associativity work in Perl more or less like they do in mathematics.
Auto-increment and Auto-decrement "++" and "--"
Constant Folding Like C, Perl does a certain amount of expression evaluation at compile time whenever it determines that all arguments to an
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