Your comparison does not look very fair. Both codes: 

sub foo {
  my @tokens = split /\:\:/, shift;
  return ( q[], $tokens[0] ) if scalar( @tokens ) == 1;
  return ( $tokens[0], $tokens[1] ) if scalar( @tokens ) == 2;
  my $function = pop @tokens;
  return ( join( q[::], @tokens), $function );
}

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and 
sub bar {
  return map({join(q[::], @$_[0 .. $#$_ - 1]), $$_[$#$_];} [split(/::/
+, shift)]); 
}

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look like very convoluted ways to split a module name into two parts. Maybe something simpler as 
sub boo {
  my $a = shift;
  if ($a =~ /^(?:(.*)::)?(.*)$/) {
      return ($1 || '', $2);
  }
}

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would work too. Using map for a 1-element array does not seem very efficient. Deconstructing a string with split to get it together with join does not seem optimal as well.

In reply to Re: Imperative VS Functional - Imperative wins? by ferreira
in thread Imperative VS Functional - Imperative wins? by bennymack

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