in reply to Re^2: Perl Golf 101
in thread Perl Golf 101

actually a few months ago I remember a discussion on p5p on return. with no explicit return and with control structures it's actually kind of a lottery to guess the actual *return*

the sad thing was that it was no easy to fix... and if I recall correctly PBP says always use return ...orthogonal to golf

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Re^4: Perl Golf 101
by chargrill (Parson) on May 31, 2006 at 00:10 UTC
    ...orthogonal to golf

    Indeed - I dare anyone to run perlcritic* against any golfed code :-) (Which is why I posted the big notice about not letting any of these "techniques" make it into production code ;)

    I've gotten in the habit of running perlcritic against pretty much all of my production level code these days, and taking the output with a grain of salt. My .perlcriticrc does contain quite a few things from PBP that I don't particularly agree with...

    * For those unfamiliar with it, perlcritic is a commandline utility that (by default) critiques your code against a set of rules as outlined by Perl Best Practices.



    --chargrill 
    $,=42;for(34,0,-3,9,-11,11,-17,7,-5){$*.=pack'c'=>$,+=$_}for(reverse s
+plit//=>$*
){$%++?$ %%2?push@C,$_,$":push@c,$_,$":(push@C,$_,$")&&push@c,$"}$C[$#
+C]=$/;($#C
>$#c)?($ c=\@C)&&($ C=\@c):($ c=\@c)&&($C=\@C);$%=$|;for(@$c){print$_^
+$$C[$%++]}

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