in reply to Fibonacci Generator

You could avoid those ugly ifs before every printout by saying 

if ($opt_c) {
    $\ = "\n";
} else {
    $\ = " ";
}

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at the top of your program (see perlvar). Your prints then simply become print; or print $y;

And two random remarks, you might be interested in this recent thread, also dealing with the Fibonacci series and I hope you developed your program using strict and warnings :)

-- Hofmator

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Re: Re: Fibonacci Generator
by sifukurt (Hermit) on Aug 10, 2001 at 19:50 UTC
    Ooooo, I like that. Hadn't even thought of doing it that way. I'm updating the posted code using your suggestion.

    I think I developed using strict and whatnot. I almost always do unless it is only going to be a two- or three-liner. Sometimes I still unconsciously rebel against my COBOL days and forget to use strict, but that happens far less often than it used to.
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      if ($opt_c) {
    $\ = "\n";
} else {
    $\ = " ";
}

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      You can avoid that ugly if/else and excess braces by writing: 
      $/= $opt_c ? "\n" : " ";

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