Maintainable by whom?

Maintainability is an interaction between code, users, and programmers. I think that most "Perl hackers" would prefer to work with eduardo's code. Most people who put Perl on their resumes would prefer what dws produced.

I personally prefer working with people who can figure out things like: 

$freq_count{$_}++ for get_words(<>);

# Takes one or more strings, returns all words it finds.
sub get_words {
  map /(\w+(?:'[ts])?)/g, @_;
}

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(Not that I try to abuse people, but should I find something convenient, I like not having to worry about whether the next person can figure that out.)

In reply to Re (tilly) 3: Efficiency in maintenance coding... by tilly
in thread Efficiency in maintenance coding... by eduardo

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