On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 02:43:08AM -0500, Sean Conner wrote:
> Um ... <raises hand> ... I'd like somethimg a bit more consistent.
>
> A typical programic idiom I use (when programming in C) is:
>
> if (argc == 1)
> do_some_process(stdin);
> else
> {
> for (i = 1 ; i < argc ; i++)
> {
> input = fopen(argv[i],"r");
> do_some_process(input);
> fclose(input);
> }
> }
>
> So imagine my surprise when:
>
> if (scalar(@ARGV) == 1)
> { # the one bit of consistancy I can do without actually
> &do_some_process(STDIN);
> }
> else
> {
> for ($i = 1 ; $i < scalar(@ARGV) ; $i++)
> {
> open INPUT,$ARGV[i];
> &do_some_process(INPUT);
> close INPUT;
> }
> }
Now, this is just silly. This reminds me of someone complaining that Perl
sucks because Perl code is difficult to read by C programmers. Perl is
hateful, but not for these reasons. You are just trying to write C here.
\Anton.
--
We're going for 'working' here. 'clean' is for people with skills...
-- Flemming Jacobsen
