On Dec 19, Ryan Guy said: >kept doing that for a whole program.) Anyways what I am getting at is that >the compiler optimizer works in tune with good coding practicing. It trips >and falls when you try to cram all that shit on one-line (with a few >exceptions). I always hear all this hype about how great one liners are, >but it is all just a myth.
I'm not sure I understand your gripe. One-liners are no different from other programs. perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' ... is no different from #!/usr/bin/perl -pi s/foo/bar/g; nor from #!/usr/bin/perl -p BEGIN { $^I = "" } s/foo/bar/g; It's just more convenient (for me) to have a one-liner. It's just a matter of convenience. Many people ignore the command-line options to Perl when they're not writing one-liners. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]