Re: slashdot/ book review

[John Porter]

Peter Scott wrote:
> 
> ... witness the following tip from P291:
> 
>   "The line ++@_[0]; is a cute example of why
>   nonprogrammers think Perl is obscure."

Also a cute example of why not everyone who thinks himself
competent to write a book on Perl actually is.

Besides the crummy slice-as-scalar, it's not meaningfully
more "obscure" than ++_[0] in C.

-- 
John Porter

A pound of cure is worth a megaton of homeopathy.