Re: Re: Explanation of commonly used Perl

In my opinion, your translation is a whole lot easier to read and probably a better idea for maintainable code. The original is pretty obfuscated and would definitely confuse a beginner.

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Re: Re: Re: Explanation of commonly used Perl by Chmrr (Vicar) on Apr 16, 2002 at 22:30 UTC
I would agree. The only "advantage" to doing the hashref / dereference / slice trick is that one avoids the %args hash; frankly, I don't consider that an advantage at all. Most of the time when I pass args to a function as a hash, I simply use the %args hash in the function, instead of pulling specific values out and stuffing them into scalars. I like to think that this makes for better maintainability and scalability. But to each their own.. perl -pe '"I lo`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'	[reply]

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Re: Re: Re: Explanation of commonly used Perl
by Chmrr (Vicar) on Apr 16, 2002 at 22:30 UTC

I would agree. The only "advantage" to doing the hashref / dereference / slice trick is that one avoids the %args hash; frankly, I don't consider that an advantage at all. Most of the time when I pass args to a function as a hash, I simply use the %args hash in the function, instead of pulling specific values out and stuffing them into scalars. I like to think that this makes for better maintainability and scalability.

But to each their own..

perl -pe '"I lo*`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.*)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'

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