Re: Dumb Mistakes

Well, i'm not so sure this is a dumb thing to do. For one it allows more flexibility than ||, because you can add the word 'defined' to the beginning which is often the best way to handle defaults. Consider

my $value=0;
my $string1=$value || "No value assigned"
my $string2=$value ? $value : "No value assigned"
my $string3=defined $value ? $value : "No value assigned"
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Only $string3 will have the correct value.

What did I do as a mistake in my early stages? I underutilized modifiers leading to hard to read code, I had a lot of $var->{key}->{key}->{key}->{key} kind of stuff. Using temporary variables cleaned that up as well as learning that the form $var->{key}{key} is legit.

Yves
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Re: Re: Dumb Mistakes by mirod (Canon) on Oct 03, 2001 at 16:06 UTC
learning that the form `$var->{key}{key}` is legit. It is legit, but I wonder how many monks use it. I personally like the `->` and I always write `$var->{foo}->{bar}`. I find it aesthetically pleasant as well as a good reminder of the fact that `$var->{foo}` is a reference and not a hash. I guess I am not the only one, given the overwhelmingly negative reaction to the replacement of the arrow by a dot in Perl 6 (which was probably Larry's goal now that I think of it, just to drive the point that Perl 6 is different from Perl 5 and that nothing is sacred).	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Dumb Mistakes by demerphq (Chancellor) on Oct 03, 2001 at 16:27 UTC
I'd like to know the rationale behind the decision before completely rejecting the change (see #43 thanks tilly) but it does seem to be an odd thing to change. Also if I've heard correctly the concat operator will be a underbar? Now that just reminds me of the broken VB run on statement syntax, which IMO is a bad recommendation. If you see what I mean. :-) Yves -- You are not ready to use symrefs unless you already know why they are bad. -- tadmc (CLPM)	[reply]


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