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C-style Logical And

Binary ``&&'' performs a short-circuit logical AND operation. That is, if the left operand is false, the right operand is not even evaluated. Scalar or list context propagates down to the right operand if it is evaluated.

Source: Perl operators and precedence
Copyright: Larry Wall, et al.

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