[Gllug] Awk Sed

[David Damerell]

On Saturday, 8 Dec 2001, Colin Coles wrote:
>>The highlight of the whole script, for me, was:
>>I vote $doit[$#doit+1] to be the most gross misuse of perl context
>>operators that I have seen in a long, long time... ;)
> Not being a Perl expert, nor this being a forum for the discussion of Perl 
>programing style, the merits of $doit[$#doit+1] above $doit[++$#doit] or even 
>push(@doit) are beyond me.

push (@doit) has the virtue of not being gratuitously perverse.

>'gross misuse' ??? Get real, one of the virtues of Perl is that allows this 
>kind of thing.

It certainly is a side effect of Perl's flexibility that it allows
people to write obfuscated code. Just because you can, however,
doesn't mean you _should_.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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