Re^2: Confessions of a back-alley map abuser

I like to use "for" for that kind of thing:

my  $sBegin = "hello world";
my  $sEnd   = $sBegin;
for ($sEnd) {
  s/hello/goodbye/g;
  s/world/todo el mondo/;
  uc;
};


print $sEnd;
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Re^3: Confessions of a back-alley map abuser by Sidhekin (Priest) on Dec 18, 2004 at 19:40 UTC
I like to use "for" for that kind of thing Me too, but I have found do{} is more readable. For one thing, it saves you from your bug: Your version throws away the uppercase string and so prints just "goodbye todo el mondo". My version would look like this: `my $sBegin = "hello world"; my $sEnd; for ($sEnd = $sBegin) { s/hello/goodbye/g; s/world/todo el mondo/; $_ = uc; }; print $sEnd;` [download] TIMTOWTDI, but I think do{} is the more readable here. Update: I trust you. No problem. But the bug still illustrates how the void context makes the for loop slightly less readable here. Such a bug (update: or the more likely opposite bug) could not as easily occur in the do{} block. `print "Just another Perl ${\(trickster and hacker)},"` The Sidhekin proves Sidhe did it!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Confessions of a back-alley map abuser by itub (Priest) on Dec 18, 2004 at 19:45 UTC
Oops, thanks! I didn't test the code, of course. It was just a quick cut-n-paste recast as a for. But trust me, when I do it in practice it works fine. ;-)	[reply]