>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Farrar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> First, please don't use map in a void context for its side effects.
Peter> Uh oh... What side effects? I use map like this all the time! What dread
Peter> is looming in my future?
Replace
EVIL: map { some;block;of;code;that;changes;$_ } @some_array;
with
GOOD: for (@some_array) { some;block;of;code;that;changes;$_ }
or if it's simple enough:
GOOD: some_expression_that_changes($_) for @some_array;
It's even less punctuation, usually.
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