Re^35: Side-effects are bad form [was: Why is the execution order...]

Assignment is a side-effect. And it's hard to write a useful Perl program that doesn't do assignment.

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Re^36: Side-effects are bad form [was: Why is the execution order...] by Anonymous Monk on Apr 19, 2005 at 15:41 UTC
Yeah, but you can keep the effects local and not spread out all over the place like BrowserUk seems to be worried about.	[reply]