Re^2: Can I please have *simple* modules?

#11911 You wrote the same thing twice here. The cardinal rule of programming is that you never ever write the same thing twice.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^3: Can I please have simple modules? by Perl Mouse (Chaplain) on Nov 24, 2005 at 15:26 UTC
What? You only have at most one `for()` statement, or one `while (<$handle>)` statement per program? Or do you factor that out as well? Never writing the same thing twice doesn't work on a low level. Accessors are low level. `Perl --((8:>*`	[reply]
Re^4: Can I please have simple modules? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 24, 2005 at 19:49 UTC
They follow a repetitive pattern. So you write a closure that encapsulates this pattern and assign instances of it to globs in your symbol table. This is Perl, not C. Copypasting is stupid busywork. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^4: Can I please have simple modules? by itub (Priest) on Nov 24, 2005 at 15:34 UTC
Damn, you tell me that after I spent hours trying to figure out how to avoid writing and rewriting `#!/usr/bin/perl` in all my programs! ;-) (Well, actually I tend to use editor templates for that...)	[reply] [d/l]