Wow. All that from 'cool','clever', and 'flexible'. Man I think you have some other issues at play here which is explained in the last line of your code. I can dig that, I had a bad experience with fish one time, I don't eat it now, but I don't go yelling at everyone who does calling them idiots. Bad analogy? Perhaps, but you stretched quite a bit in your little rant too so I think it is fair. "I've been down this road and got burned so no one should ever go down that road" is pretty weak as an argument. If you had someone redefine a function on you in the middle of debuging then be mad at that person, not at anyone who rights 'cool','clever', 'flexible' code.
As a side note I would call code 'cool' if it did something in a quick clever fashion that i immediatly understood. Code I can't understand wouldn't be called cool, and code I could do simpler another way wouldn't be called cool.
Clever would be code that uses an approach that isn't obviously found, but is easily understood. Ever learned the different sorting techniques and gone...wow thats clever!
Flexible to me would mean that while the code has one specific goal in mind, it was written with the ability to extend its functionality and use it in as yet unforseen ways. The sort function in perl is pretty darn flexible and will let you do cool and clever things with it ;)
Thats my two cents, take it, leave it, whatever.
In reply to Re^4: defining methods on the fly
by eric256
in thread defining methods on the fly
by flogic
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