From: Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:20 AM
> Which can of course be written in an immeasuably more legible fashion
> using current Perl, a little-known language:
>
> ($name) = split /\s+/, $name;
> $string = quotemeta($string);
> @array = reverse @array;
> @vals = sort { $a <=> $b } @vals;
>
> Explicitly saying precisely what you mean is perfectly acceptable--and
> usually desirable. Inventing subtleties merely to avoid typing, however,
> may not be.
Certainly a good point. In that we do have the += family of assignment
operators, does anyone find anything attractive in the following?
split= /\s+/, $name;
quotemeta= $string;
reverse= @array;
sort= { $a <=> $b } @vals;
- mike mulligan
