[Omaha.pm] short is good

[Dan Linder]

Maybe it's my old brain, but I like using "return" in this context for code
that isn't being submitted to a PerlGolf competition.

I've encountered enough bad/sketchy coding that didn't define a return value
for a subroutine that I would be suspicious if the original programmer
/meant/ to return the $self->send() value, or if they thought they were
calling some other routine (and the return value was just a
by-product/accident).

Golf is great, but it isn't always productive.  (Much like "real golf".)

DanL

2010/4/21 Theodore Katseres <tedkat at gmail.com>

> 2010/4/20 Jay Hannah <jhannah at omnihotels.com>
>
>  laugh... caught myself changing code to this
>>
>>
>>
>>    my $response;
>>
>>    unless ( $response = $self->send() ) {
>>
>>      return 0;
>>
>>    }
>>
>>    return $response;
>>
>>
>>
>> this is much better:
>>
>>
>>
>>    return $self->send();
>>
>
> For some extra GOLF points you could
>
> {
>  ...
>   $self->send();
> }
>
> --
> Ted Katseres
>      ||=O=||
>
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