I hope you won't take this the wrong way, but ...

Nah, never taken the wrong way ... *memo to self - add perrin to the list* ... :)

I understand your point with regard to readability ... I have been guilty of writing some horrendously difficult code to decipher before, purely without intent - The reason for the embedding of the subroutine within the code at this point is so that the regular expressions in the file are loaded entirely within the BEGIN {} block. Yes I can still call the subroutine from this point, but for my own mindset, I like keeping such initialisation code in the one place. Nevertheless, your point is well noted ...

The hard-coding of the constant 8 is more of an oversight, but one which I should most definitely correct - Guess that's what happens when you get too pensive regarding programming methodology and ignore the practicalities *grin*

 

Ooohhh, Rob no beer function well without!

In reply to Re: Re: Scope and Context by rob_au
in thread Scope and Context by rob_au

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