[Gllug] re: OSS CMSs

[David Damerell]

On Friday, 29 Apr 2005, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
>like linenoise.  This isn't helped by the documentation often using the 
>most obscure constructions.
>A good example is push: http://www.perlfunc.org/function.php?name=push
>The example given:
>    for $value (LIST) {
>    	$ARRAY[++$#ARRAY] = $value;
>    	}
>When I, and surely anyone sane, would write this:
>    foreach $value (LIST) {
>    	push(@ARRAY, $value)
>    	}
>Or maybe I'm missing something?

Well, the intention is to demonstrate the effect of push, which can
hardly be done in terms of push.

That said, some constructions involving $# are useful, but utterly
perverse to anyone who doesn't make regular use of them.

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