On 2 Jul 2003 at 8:07, Abigail wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:37:16PM -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> >
> > "Give you anything" isn't really the point -- Perl is filled with
> > multiple ways to do things and the simple argument that you can do
> > something similar using some other mechanism is rarely determinative.
>
> I can't think of a single Perl construct that does only one thing,
> and that can be done with about the same number of keystrokes
> by a more general construct.
Ah, and as a footnote to my previous note [mentioning 'our'] how about
"unshift" ... and "unless"? And all the statement modifiers [if/while/for]?
I happen to disagree that:
{
my $vbl ;
sub xxx
{ ...
is particularly more elegant than having 'static', but since you don't, then I
guess to your view you'd argue that:
if (BOOL)
{ stmt }
is also more 'elegant' than the statement modifier form:
stmt if BOOL ;
in fact, as you pointed out for the closure-syntax, you could even have the
'if' span multiple statements instead of just having it limited to a single
statement.
/Bernie\
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