On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:26:14 +0000, "Earle Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 17/12/06, H.Merijn Brand <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1. It is not the same, as now the semi-colon is included in the statement > > OH NOES TEH SEMI COLON!!1 > > So take it out. > > I would note that in the code you pasted, it wasn't immediately > obvious that the semi-colon isn't included in the statement, and that, > my friend, is extremely hateful. s/hateful/useful/ But as noted in this thread before. That is in the eye of the beholder. As with many languages, perl as programming/scripting language in particular, one uses the language specifics that best matches one's mind in getting to the solution the text/script is written for. For some that might sound confusing, what for others sounds as a-ha moments. I once attended the presentation of the end-work of someone getting a high university degree, and though I loved the presentation and the discussions that it caused, and I could understand every word and syntactically used language construct, I didn't understand a single syllable of the whole presentation. Sometimes one has to learn some background before understanding what seems complicated on the surface, but once the background is known, it is really simple. Probably the same with (programming) language constructs. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.0 & 10.1, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
