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vroom Just another Perl shrine  Comment on  This actually is
easily googleable... if you're deep enough into the Perl
culture. Try searching for it under the name "orcish maneuver",
which will explain not only what the operator is but also
exactly how it's being used in this case. (Link is to
duckduckgo's first result, which just happens to also be on
PerlMonks.)  Also note that, because of the distinction between
truthiness and definedness mentioned in previous replies, you're
going to want to use //= instead of ||= in the vast majority of
cases unless your code needs to support pre-5.10 versions of
Perl.  In reply to Re^3: ||= (poorly documented?) by dsheroh in
thread ||= (poorly documented?) by live4tech  and:  <code> code
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