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Re^6: Common Perl Pitfallsby jdporter (Paladin) |
on Apr 11, 2012 at 16:14 UTC ( [id://964569]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
half a day to type You keep dwelling on that, but I think you're misdirecting. He wrote, "spend half a day writing and debugging code", not "half a day to type in one line". If someone has a bug they need to track down, they're far more likely to waste cycles on a line like $_=do{local$/;<>}; than one like $_=read_file($file); Now let's compare apples to apples: vs
For most programmers, the former looks sane.
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