Assigning using ternary operator?

Question

I am on Perl 5.8 and am needing to assign a default value. I ended up doing this:

if ($model->test) {
    $review = \"1\"
} else {
    $review = \'\'
}
         


        

Answer 1

I'd usually write this as:

$review = ( defined($model->test) ? 1 : '' );

where the parentheses are for clarity for other people reading the code.