>It hurts me to do this when there's even a little bit of data, since it
>ends up spanning lines really quickly. And it's harder to read and
>figure out how everything lines up. Honestly, which is easier to read
>and code?
>print "Thanks, ", $q->param('name'), " for your order of ",
>$q->param('amt'), "\n";
>print "Thanks, $q->param('name') for your order of $q->param('amt')\n";
The non-embedded one is easier to read, of course. And this "$q->"
crud is a bad choice anyway. If we're going to be mutating Perl just
to appease the CGI weenies, then we're doing the wrong thing. Consider:
virtually nobody uses that silly OO style with CGI.pm, you know. So you
*have* to call
print "Thanks, ", param('name'), " for your order of ", param('amt'), "\n";
And anyway, that's ugly. Write that this way if you want it legible:
printf "Thanks, %s, for your order of %.02f\n", param('name'), param('amt');
or even
printf "Thanks, %s, for your order of %.02f\n",
param('name'), param('amt');
>Plus, I notice you ignored my regex example...
I don't know what you want me to do about that. You can't do it with
backticks either, and for exactly the same reason. If you consider this
an onerous burden, then I envy that you have nothing better to annoy you.
>-Nate
>P.S. I wrote both the above functions on one line, and let my mailer
>wrap them @ std 72 cols,
Mailers mail. They don't wrap. I suggest you acquire one.
--tom
