>>>>> "CD" == Chris Devers <[email protected]> writes:
CD> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Uri Guttman <[email protected]> wrote: >> assign => sub { my $x = 'abc' ; $x = "qwerty/$x" }, >> substr => sub { my $x = 'abc' ; substr( $x, 0, 0, 'qwerty/') }, CD> The substr version doesn't look very readable or maintainable. CD> You're teaching *beginners* to do things this way? well, not teaching it. i offered an alternative and faster way to prepend a string. some on the beginner's list are very capable of using substr in all its forms. the OP actually looked up the docs and found lvalue substr but i replied it shouldn't be used as 4 arg substr can do the same thing and is much faster. 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
