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I usually avoid BLOCK constructs when I can, but even more than BLOCKs I dislike having similar-looking code that acts very different. So I like the BLOCK versions of grep and map.

    -- Chip Salzenberg, Free-Floating Agent of Chaos

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Re^4: checking input using grep()
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 29, 2001 at 00:39 UTC
    I do see your point.

    Mine is I like to regard brackets as syntactic sugar that I only use where really necessary for perl or to highlight any hidden precedence issue. I'm so used to automatically resolving long statements right-to-left without second though that when brackets automatically are "pay attention with precedence here!" signs for me. So I find it very distracting if there's many of them, and it takes me a lot longer to break up the statement into its parts.

    Once again it's a matter of taste and habit I guess - TMTOWTDI :-)
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