Re^2: Perl oddities (s/// doesn't DWIM in map)

I understand that you were just giving an example, but it looks like gratuitous chaining to me. Why not just

for (@w) {
  s/er/aler/g;
  print "$_\n";
}
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Re^3: Perl oddities (s/// doesn't DWIM in map) by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Mar 01, 2005 at 18:33 UTC
Because that might be part of a much larger chain. Additionally, what's gratuitous in one set of eyes is natural in another's. For example, I find Java to be a gratuitous (mis)use of classes, but others, like Smalltalkers, find it to be gratuitously procedural. :-) Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing. Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid. Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence. Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.	[reply]

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Re^3: Perl oddities (s/// doesn't DWIM in map)
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Mar 01, 2005 at 18:33 UTC

Additionally, what's gratuitous in one set of eyes is natural in another's. For example, I find Java to be a gratuitous (mis)use of classes, but others, like Smalltalkers, find it to be gratuitously procedural. :-)

Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

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