John W. Krahn wrote:
Shawn Corey wrote:for my $key ( sort keys %{ { STOPWORDS } } ){ my $value = ${ { STOPWORDS } }{$key};In both lines you are copying the entire list to an anonymous hash. If you want efficient code (and less punctuation) you should just use a hash.
Efficiency. There's that word again. If you truly want efficient code you won't create subroutines that return lists. They would return references to the lists or store them in global arrays.
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