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in reply to Re^2: Things I Don't Use in Perl
in thread Things I Don't Use in Perl
It definitely makes the equation easier to read, but I'm not sure if it makes the code easier to read. You can't easily tell that "." may be doing tons of matrix operations (or who knows what else), not concatenating some strings. It looks like standard Perl, but it's not really Perl, it's mathematics. But on the other hand, people may already have a strong preconception of what "." means with regards to matrix manipulation. And it's easier/faster to type. I can see your point. |
Re^4: Things I Don't Use in Perl
by itub (Priest) on Aug 23, 2005 at 18:34 UTC
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It's all in the context. If that line of code is part of a vector algebra program, in a subroutine called "rotate_vector", and the names of the variables suggest that they might be vectors, it should be pretty obvious what the dot means. ;-) But yep, in some other context it might be confusing. | [reply] |
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