At 14.28 -0400 2000.05.25, Horsley Tom wrote:
>> If you cannot understand this:
>>
>> if ($x == 1 || $y == 2) {
>
>I might be able to understand that :-), but on the other hand
>I can also understand (($x == 1) || ($y == 2)) and there isn't
>the slightest shred of doubt in the back of my mind that
>the author actually meant that :-).
Yes, but my point is that there should be not the slightest shred of doubt
in the back of your mind what someone meant by the other one, too.
>> I dunno, I am not sure I buy it. Can you give us an example of
>> well-written Perl code that would be very difficult for
>> another reasonably
>> competent Perl programmer to maintain?
>
>That's easy - pick any random piece of code from CPAN.
>(or just from the well written subset :-). The odds are
>high that it uses some idiom you aren't familir with and
>will stop you in your tracks when you are trying to
>debug through it in detail.
I'm unconvinced. I think perhaps if it stops me in my tracks like that,
then it perhaps is not well-written.
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