How about something that is like the following pseudo code:
for $item @list {
next if definite failure condition
action if most likely condition
action if next most likely condition
etc.
default action
}
Giving you:
for (readdir DIR) {
next if $_ eq '.' || $_ eq '..';
push (@files,$_) && next if -f $base/$_;
push (@dirs,$_) && next if -d $base/$_;
# default to no operation
}
I imagine this will look a lot more elegant with the new perl 6 switch statement.
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