>>>>> "r" == rogers-pm5 <[email protected]> writes:
r> From: "Greg London"<[email protected]> r> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:49:49 -0400 r> Oh god. I'm digging through what might be on the order of.a hundred r> thousand lines of perl code on a system. The file that snippet came r> from is over ten thousand lines long. My brain is about to implode. r> Thanks. r> You have my sympathies. Anyone who writes r> if ($#{$Queue} <= -1) { ... } r> instead of r> if (! @$Queue) { ... } r> is either ignorant, or evil. Possibly both. <AOL>ME TOO!</AOL> actually the <= part is even more amusing. look here: perl -le '$#foo = -2 ; print $#foo' -1 you can't set the last index to < -1. which makes sense. which makes the original code even dumber. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [email protected] -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
