[Gllug] re: OSS CMSs

[Anthony Newman]

David Damerell wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Some constructions using the subtle nuances of Perl's list and scalar 
context are utterly perverse if you've never seen them before, but if 
you've never widely seen a language in use before, or don't make regular 
use of same, should you really be attempting to maintain, say, 
mission-critical code written using it without a good reference manual 
at your side?

I have to say I'd use push() under this circumstance, because using $# 
saves very little in the way of effort, and push is likely to do the 
same thing predictably in future when my code becomes legacy material.


Ant



P.S.
      $array[++$#array] = $_ for @list;

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