Re^6: Create reference to sorted anonymous array

Eww... Seeing that ensures me to stick with the C-Style loop. :P
Honestly using grep to determine whether to print out the next element or not is... wow. :P

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Re^7: Create reference to sorted anonymous array by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Mar 18, 2016 at 13:24 UTC
After you've been doing Perl for awhile you'll probably never want to see the C-for loop again. Perl style and idioms might be a little jarring at first but they are very readable once you get used to them and, I argue, lead toward more compact code in the loops which, for me, is easier to follow and debug. I'd rather see 5 lines of good/common idiom than 20 lines of plodding obviousness.... The more dense one is actually easier to focus on and not miss things, for me, anyway.	[reply]

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Re^7: Create reference to sorted anonymous array
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Mar 18, 2016 at 13:24 UTC

After you've been doing Perl for awhile you'll probably never want to see the C-for loop again. Perl style and idioms might be a little jarring at first but they are very readable once you get used to them and, I argue, lead toward more compact code in the loops which, for me, is easier to follow and debug. I'd rather see 5 lines of good/common idiom than 20 lines of plodding obviousness.... The more dense one is actually easier to focus on and not miss things, for me, anyway.

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