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Then I truly feel sorry for those who wind up with the crap job of maintaining your code. Maybe you should spend more time writing readable code instead of Golfing your ego at this site ... you guys really have your priorities backwards here. It really is no wonder why Perl is in the sad state she is in right now.
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Re^4: "my $p = value if condition()" as bad|deprecated as "my $p if 0" (Naughty indeed)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 16, 2008 at 18:43 UTC

    I find your justifictions for giving up Perl in favour of some cut down and simplified look-a-like, that meets with your personal approval, completely unpersuasive.

    Just because you feel the need to single step through every clause and condition of your code in order to debug it, does not mean that everyone needs to resort to such primitive measures.

    And if the time required to convert a single statement with a post condition into a pre-condition block with two statements, is a significant portion of the time it takes you to decide that it needs to be done, it probably expains why you spend so much time debugging.

    And I find your suggestion that anything like a majority, or even a major minority of the programmers in this world need to have their code delivered in bite-sized morsels unproven. And frankly, vaguely insulting. 

    Imagine music without the black notes
Cos thirteen are harder than eight to learn
Or written without the use of chords
Cos multiple tones are hard to discern

Further, and just for good measure
Imagine that just one meter was used
Ev-ery thing would be mo-no-ton-ic
Then no one would ever be confused.

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    Care to post a semi-substantial piece of your code? I'll re-write it to my standards, and then we can have a proper discussion about maintainability. And if you've any balls, you'll quit hiding behind anonymonk.

    In the meantime. I should have stuck to "Just saying .."

    Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
    "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
    In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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      In the meantime. I should have stuck to "Just saying ..""

      I was thinking that in the meantime you could go @#$@# yourself.

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        Yes. What else would you be thinking.

        Careful though. That sentence has three subclauses. You really ought to consider breaking it up to avoid confusion. Was it your thinking that occured "in the meantime"? Or was that your projection for when I should take action?

        Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
        "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
        In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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