Re^9: Thread on Joel on software forum : "I hate Perl programmers."

Um. Yes?

for( @birds )
{
  next unless /bar/;
  s/puffin/poppin/;
  print;
}
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Versus

for $bird (@birds)
{
  next unless $bird =~ /bar/;
  $bird =~ s/puffin/poppin/;
  print $bird;
}
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Maybe it's me or my choice of code, but I don't really see the second one as being much harder to understand.

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Re^10: Thread on Joel on software forum : "I hate Perl programmers." by perrin (Chancellor) on Jun 17, 2005 at 04:27 UTC
No big deal -- we just diagree. I think the second is easier to read. Incidentally, you didn't explicitly use $_ here, just default function args. I find it more jarring when the $_ is explicit.	[reply]

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