On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmich...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 02:25:02PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:38 AM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> > wrote: > > > $Name.IO.f or $Name.IO.open(:w).close; > > > > fwiw I consider this a perl3_to_5-ism; it's an optimization, and a fairly > > It's not entirely a perl3-to-5ism. Using || and && for conditional > execution dates back to Unix shell programming (long before Perl existed); > Perl 5 introduced the low precedence "or"/"and" versions of the operators. > True, but I don't really consider shells to be full programming languages; they exist to glue external programs together. (Shell as JCL, if you will.) If you have an actual programming language around, there's no reason to stick to unreadable JCL-ish constructs. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
