Re^2: I present to you... Horrible code!

That said, this function, in its original form, is completely useless, because it is executing a SELECT request from a locally scoped statement handler, and its result would be simply lost.

Oh, there's more fun than that, my friend! There are some databases where you can set up a view in such a way that a SELECT against it actually makes changes to stuff. In Oracle 9, you can actually have it do literally anything, including executing Perl code.

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Re^3: I present to you... Horrible code! by hardburn (Abbot) on Jan 10, 2005 at 14:32 UTC
That's some messy programming-by-side-effect there. Sure, calling an external database is already a side-effect, but it's the sort you pretty much have to live with. If the posted code is using such a view, I wouldn't consider it an improvement. "There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.	[reply]