Okay, well it looks like you've done the obvious first thing: you've more-or-less broken out every if clause as a subroutine call. So your structure of logical tests may be a mess, but all they do is decide which sub to call.

A minor readability hint: drop the leading "&" on sub calls. It's gone out of style, unless you want the old-fashion calling semantics that automatically passes through @_.

As for cleaning up the logical tests, I don't know what to suggest except that you should write an extensive series of automated tests (e.g. using Test::More and friends) so then you can try experimental refactoring and know immediately if you've broken something.

(By the way, there is a AI::Prolog module, so you can do Prolog type stuff from within perl. Could be fun to play with, though I'm not sure it's ready for "production use".)

In reply to Re: Really Long if/elsif/else blocks by doom
in thread Really Long if/elsif/else blocks by throop

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