Is Perl optimized to skip remaining logic operands if the answer is already decided?

Question

For instance, I need to match some text if $do eq \'b\'. If I run this code:

if (($do eq \'b\') && (/text/))
{
do stuff
}

Answer 1

It would be

if ($do eq 'b' && /text/) {
    do stuff
}

Yes - if $do eq 'b' is false, /text/ won't be evaluated.