Re^4: foreach loop - could it beeeeee!!

I must say that I think that all this "readability for newbies" is all a pile of nonsense. Just make it readable for yourself.

For the record, what I said was “… for folks like me who can never remember precedence …”. I am no expert, to be sure, but I'm not entirely a newbie, either. :-)

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Re^5: foreach loop - could it beeeeee!! by bart (Canon) on Oct 11, 2009 at 20:59 UTC
Well, the don't take it personally, then... I always find that these arguments about readability degenerate into an argument for readability for a hypothetical user. Usually this user is a newbie who, apparently, is clueless about Perl idioms. So the more more the code looks like other languages, such as Java, the better. Well, I don't buy it. The main reason why people use Perl instead of any other language, is because it makes it easier to do certain tasks than those other languages. Restricting yourself to a subset so those people coming from other languages can read it, is simply throwing away that advantage. So, let's say I was just one step ahead of you, then... :)	[reply]

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Re^5: foreach loop - could it beeeeee!!
by bart (Canon) on Oct 11, 2009 at 20:59 UTC

I always find that these arguments about readability degenerate into an argument for readability for a hypothetical user. Usually this user is a newbie who, apparently, is clueless about Perl idioms. So the more more the code looks like other languages, such as Java, the better.

Well, I don't buy it. The main reason why people use Perl instead of any other language, is because it makes it easier to do certain tasks than those other languages. Restricting yourself to a subset so those people coming from other languages can read it, is simply throwing away that advantage.

So, let's say I was just one step ahead of you, then... :)

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