Re^2: assigning the maximum of two numbers

I just feel compelled to reply:

my $max_xy = ($x,$y)[$x<$y]

I have never seen that before. You get +100 Evan points for that show of cunning. I plan to write programs around this in the future. I feel it worthy to note though that you lack a special vital caveat. Your code can be borked if one utilizes $[, ex $[=1, You might want to append it slightly:

my $max_xy = ($x,$y)[abs( ($x<$y)+$[ )];

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Re^3: assigning the maximum of two numbers by GrandFather (Saint) on Nov 03, 2005 at 03:30 UTC
`$[` is nasty, nasty, nasty, and is deprecated. If all Perl had to be written on the off chance that `$[` may have changed, almost no Perl project would get completed. For any new code it should be completely safe to ignore `$[`. About the only good use I can think of for it is to write nasty obfu code, or maybe for Golf. Perl is Huffman encoded by design.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: assigning the maximum of two numbers by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 04, 2005 at 20:15 UTC
I saw that used a lot over 15 years ago in BASIC code. BASIC didn't have a ternary conditional operator, but it was possible to emulate it. `$a = $i > $j ? 6 : 10;` [download] could be written as the following in BASIC (knowing that false is 0 and true is -1): `LET a = (i > j) * 4 + 10;` [download] just as it could be written as the following in Perl (knowing that false is 0 and true is 1): `$a = ($i > $j) * -4 + 10;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]