Re^2: Holy Crap! Programming Well is Hard Work

Ha! Though I'm finding the road to Valley of Despair is not smooth, fast, or short. It's full of huge peaks and valleys across a 1000 mile jungle trek.

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Re^3: Holy Crap! Programming Well is Hard Work by perldigious (Priest) on Feb 27, 2017 at 20:28 UTC
But I would walk 500 miles And I would walk 500 more Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles To fall down at the monastery door use constant STEPS_IN_MILE => 2000; # rough estimate based on www.thew +alkingsite.com/10000steps.html my $step_counter = 0; # I'll presume you are just starting out... my $current_state = 'walking'; # but you are trying! while ($current_state eq 'walking') { $step_counter++; $step_counter++ if ( $step_counter/STEPS_IN_MILE > 500 ); # don't +you think you've dawdled long enough? Pick up the pace! (more of a j +og at this point) $current_state = 'fallen down' if ( $step_counter/STEPS_IN_MILE > +1000 ); # do ring the gong before falling, the kind Monks will surely + fetch you water. } [download] Just another Perl hooker - Selling my `%hash` for `$cash`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Holy Crap! Programming Well is Hard Work
by perldigious (Priest) on Feb 27, 2017 at 20:28 UTC

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at the monastery door

use constant STEPS_IN_MILE => 2000; # rough estimate based on www.thew
+alkingsite.com/10000steps.html

my $step_counter = 0; # I'll presume you are just starting out...
my $current_state = 'walking'; # but you are trying!

while ($current_state eq 'walking')
{
    $step_counter++;
    $step_counter++ if ( $step_counter/STEPS_IN_MILE > 500 ); # don't 
+you think you've dawdled long enough?  Pick up the pace! (more of a j
+og at this point)
    $current_state = 'fallen down' if ( $step_counter/STEPS_IN_MILE > 
+1000 ); # do ring the gong before falling, the kind Monks will surely
+ fetch you water.
}
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