On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 13:17:11 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff 'Japhy'
Pinyan) wrote:
> I think the golfers among us should pool our efforts (after the rowdy,
> cut-throat competition ends, of course!) to amass a list of common -- or
> would that be uncommon? -- golfing techniques. While participating in a
> round on PerlMonks.org, I used
>
> rand>$f?Y:X
>
> instead of the error-producing
>
> rand<$f?X:Y
>
> which must be rewritten as
>
> rand()<$f?X:Y
Or similarly
50>length
rather than
length()<=50
or even
length($_)<=50
Cheers,
Philip
