I think you have a point on one level and on the other have temporarily forgotten a core principle of Perl.

Do these tricks have a legitimate purpose?
Not really, or not to my knowledge anyway. Maybe obfus or something.
Are they probably a bad idea to do?
Yep.
Should we worry about it in average code?
Nope.
Should we worry about it in code specifically meant to properly grok various data types and structures?
Yep.
Should we make thse things illegal?
Nope.
Why not?
Just because we can't see a good reason to do these things doesn't mean that there will never be a good reason to do them. So its better to leave them alone.
Yeah but isn't that a bit dangerous
Yeah but so is ten feet of rope.
It is?
Sure, somebody could hang themself.
Er...
Ever notice that you can redefine the value of numeric constants in perl?
What?
Sure. You can define 1 to be an approximation of pi if you like.
Oh god.
Yep. Be careful with that there rope now y'hear.

;-)


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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Recursive map Design Questions by demerphq
in thread Recursive map Design Questions by bsb

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