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in thread Perl style: Arguing against three-argument join()

 $html ~= [~]
        createLink( $USER, "you" ),
        " have a ",
        $rating.fmt("%+.2f"),
        " rating";

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Couldn't that be written as: 
[~=] $html, createLink( $USER, "you" ), " have a ", $rating.fmt("%+.2f
+"), " rating";

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My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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Re^4: Perl style: Arguing against three-argument join() (++join '')
by TimToady (Parson) on Jan 25, 2008 at 00:17 UTC
    Nope, because that would come out to A ~= B ~= C ~= D, which would only work if assignment were left associative.
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      If attempts to modify a constant item instead created a temporary variable to put it in should it be the RHS, then that would work regardless of associativity.
      My criteria for good software:
      1. Does it work?
      2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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