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Except when it's not, like in perl.



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


Except when they're not.


And when is that? The docs just say it's right associative[1]. And while it's been a long time since I've written any nontrivial Perl, I don't remember ever having ?: be left associative.

[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop




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