Re: Perl-Win32-Users Digest, Vol 19, Issue 14

2008-02-22 Thread David Golden
> easy task? Or the very clever approach of building a custom regex via join > q{}, map { "[$num2chars[$_]]" } split //, , 7; -- okay, but again, I > think I'd argue that clever is probably bad. Conway has a dicta for that, > too: "Don't be clever." His observation is that while Perl provides

Re: discussing good style

2008-02-22 Thread Robert W Weaver
Dave Golden wrote: > Jan Dubois wrote: > > So any feedback on the style /content would be welcome. > I really liked that you discussed good style and some defensive > coding, even though that wasn't required by the competition. > "open or die" -- I personally think it's good style to die with at