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Not sure what you mean, but ternaries are right-associative in Perl just like most other languages. PHP is the odd one out.

I believe that 9,000 years ago there wasn’t as distinct a pole star due to axial procession. Celestial north would probably have been somewhere between Vega and Tau Hercluis with a…

Unfortunate that the repo name and header text of the README both misspell “programming”

If you define fall as the size of the gap. You could also take it as acceleration towards the barycenter, which would be the same. These are indistinguishable for everyday objects …

That is a concern, but this makes invariants something the compiler can reason about more easily, since they happen at function boundaries and are distinct from regular code, unlik…

The post assertions do look very similar to a unit test, but the pre assertions seem really useful; it can sometimes be difficult to know every code path that leads to your functio…

Without other planets to examine, we have no way of knowing whether this is survivorship bias. Is life truly that tenacious or are we incredibly lucky? Perhaps best not to tempt fa…

There is a great deal more to learning a language than its alphabet, and English is probably one of the worst languages to learn that use the Latin alphabet, with many inconsistenc…

When I was a Perl programmer, in our shop we amended the motto "There's more than one way to do it" to "There's more than one way to do it, but most of those ways are wrong." The P…