Re: seeking golfing advice

2012-05-16 Thread Pau Amma
On Wed, May 16, 2012 12:25 pm, damien krotkine wrote:
> On 16 May 2012 14:02, Peter Makholm  wrote:
> [ ... ]
>
>> So basically you are trading 8 characters for readability and probably
>> speed. Why do you want that?
>
> For fun, purely. I'll stick with $f % 2 for now, it seems a right
> balance compared to the code lying around.

If, as it sounds, you want to balance golfiness and strictness, you could
also say:

@array[grep $_%2, keys @array]

(or @array[grep $_%2^1, keys @array] if you set $[ to 1 - but you didn't
do that, right? :-) )



Re: Secret operators: the documentation

2012-04-02 Thread Pau Amma
On Mon, April 2, 2012 4:28 pm, Alexis Sukrieh wrote:
> Le 16 mars 2012 12:44, Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
>  a écrit :
>> So,
>>
>> A few years back, I started to write a manual page about Perl secret
>> operators,
> [...]
> I have a question though;
>
> Did you change your mind about the "A word of warning" section? It
> sounds that it won't fit well in the official Perl documentation ;)

Version I saw last week-end includes:

===
You're welcome to try these at home, but they might not be safe for work!
===

Is that what you were thinking of?