I intended to send this to the list and accidentally replied directly to the person to whom I was replying. I figure it's worth reposting to the list.
----- Forwarded message from Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jen Spinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Quick question on code factoring On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:28:15PM -0400, Jen Spinney wrote: > > Chad - > > Thanks for the quick reply. How do I embed the "unless" inside > function call parentheses? > > I've muddled around with the following, but it's not right. (I'm > probably embarrassing myself by showing I tried it this way... :) ) > > ($x[0], $time1, > $x[1], $time1, > $x[2], $time2, unless $color eq $B_COLOR > $x[3], $time2, unless $color eq $B_COLOR > ... ) The way you did that makes "unless $color eq $B_COLOR" a separate element from "$x[2], $time2," (think about the commas). I recommend using the syntax suggested by John W. Krahn for this. I haven't tested it to ensure that it works, but from a cursory glance it looks like it should work, and it's prettier than what I was thinking. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet." ----- End forwarded message ----- -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] "There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production." - MacUser, November 1990 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
