[Gllug] Awk Sed

[Colin Coles]

>You trust your data with _that_ ??

Indeed. Have done so for several years.

>
>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... ;)
>

 Thanks for your comments; I'll never use that naughty piece of coding again, 
isn't disgusting that people can get away with allowing people to use their 
poorly written work.
 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. Perhaps the later is more efficient, but as far as 
my limited knowledge allows, my analysis of the above concludes: they all 
achieve exactly the same result. I was not citing the author as a 'Perl God', 
merely recomending the script as something I've found useful, it works, end 
of story.
 'gross misuse' ??? Get real, one of the virtues of Perl is that allows this 
kind of thing. Though I'm sure you're capable of writing something much more 
aesthetic and complying more rigidly to your own personal rules, and have 
selflessly released these works into the community, I feel your missive sank 
to the level of a bigoted troll. I wasn't going to dignify your misguided 
rant with a reply, however I didn't want folks to think this list was 
exclusively inhabited by intolerant self-appointed code-police buffoon types 
;)

--
Colin.

"There's more than one way to do it." - Larry Wall
http://www.wall.org/~larry/onion/talk.html

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