in reply to Looped around my neck (help with my poor little loops!)

The loop in &guessing is not really a loop at all. It will either exit (bad form to exit from a subroutine) or execute the last statement on the first pass. I think that while really wants to be an if.

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print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':'';
$m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) }
split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';

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Re: Re: Looped around my neck (help with my poor little loops!)
by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 17, 2003 at 02:50 UTC
    bad form to exit from a subroutine

    Baloney! Programs should exit wherever it makes sense to exit.
    Sometimes — yea, most of the time — that is in a subroutine.

    (Update)

    For fun, see the Single Function Exit Point anti-pattern.

    jdporter
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