Exactly the opening post attempts to be clever, but instead it does something that doesn't even make sense... ($a|$b|$c|$d) is not any() from Quantum::Superpositions, it's an or operation on a series of values and then a conditional. Horribly bad form and it should have never been written that way in the first place.

( For the vast masses downvoting this, BTW, please explain why the OP post is exemplifying good software design... think about it... not writing maintainable working code and falling for these kind of traps is what gives Perl programmers a bad name .. and this is *not* helping. I don't mind taking the hit here, go ahead, please stand up for your right to write broken code and drag down Perl in your workplace, etc. )

In reply to Re: Re: Can you spot the problem? by flyingmoose
in thread Can you spot the problem? by dws

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