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Re: Practical example of "Is Perl code maintainable"

by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop)
on Aug 13, 2007 at 08:49 UTC ( [id://632161]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Practical example of "Is Perl code maintainable"

Just found another: 

sub file_size {
  my ($file) = @_;
  if( ! -f $file ) {
    return 0;
  }
  my $dummy;
  my $size;
  ($dummy,$dummy, $dummy, $dummy, $dummy, $dummy, $dummy, $size, $dumm
+y,
          $dummy, $dummy, $dummy, $dummy) = stat($file);
  return $size;
}

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which was either written because he never heard of -s or maybe to silence warnings when the file does not exist. I'm tempted to replace it with: 
sub file_size { -s shift || 0 }

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