[Purdue-pm] False Hubris code example

[Michael Gribskov]

Why do people consider code like this to be "good"??

my $text = do { local( @ARGV, $/ ) = $file ; <> };

while it is compact, it is to my mind obscure and uneccessarily 
difficult to understand, succeeding by side effects of the overt code.  
A whole program written like this is a nightmare. IMO of course

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Michael Gribskov
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