Re: [Boston.pm] Subroutine definition

2007-09-11 Thread Palit, Nilanjan
So I tried this using the following code, where %format_conv has an entry for each type of conversion needed with a list of items: foreach my $fmtcnv (sort keys %format_conv) { my @itemlist= @{$format_conv{$fmtcnv}}; #List of items print \nFormat conversion: '$fmtcnv'\n\t,

Re: [Boston.pm] Subroutine definition

2007-09-11 Thread Ben Tilly
On 9/11/07, Palit, Nilanjan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I tried this using the following code, where %format_conv has an entry for each type of conversion needed with a list of items: [...] When I run it, the 'defined' part works fine, but I get an error on the last line: Can't use string

Re: [Boston.pm] Subroutine definition

2007-09-11 Thread Palit, Nilanjan
(I've never quite understood why that's allowed by strict 'refs', but it is.) I did think of using a ref to a sub, but just assumed that strict would flag that too, so I didn't bother trying! Instead, I ended up taking Martin Owen's suggestion of doing an eval, though that is probably a less

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Re: [Boston.pm] perl vs. MIT

2007-09-11 Thread Jerrad Pierce
There are people at/from MIT who use perl (Small Languages conferences anyone?) Myself and Alex V. included. Not so long ago, SIPB used to be home to some perl folk too. IME though, there aren't really that many coders at MIT, though I've recently soeen some folks working ona meebo-like thing in

Re: [Boston.pm] Subroutine definition

2007-09-11 Thread Ben Tilly
On 9/11/07, Palit, Nilanjan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] It is very bad form to use map as a looping construct. Can you elaborate why it is a bad form: readability, performance, ...? Just want to understand the underlying reason. (To me, both the for map inline forms appear to be the same

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2007-09-11 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
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Re: [Boston.pm] Subroutine definition

2007-09-11 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Ben Tilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:18:57 -0700 On 9/11/07, Palit, Nilanjan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] It is very bad form to use map as a looping construct. Can you elaborate why it is a bad form: readability, performance, ...? Just want