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[Brent Fulgham]

Gary,

You have VERY strong Kung Fu.

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> Interesting...
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> Randal's code is
> my @column_def = map [ m{^(\S+)\s+(.*)} ], <<'END_DEFINITION' =~
> /(.+)/g;
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> followed by a here-document containing lines like
> Name     perl-mongers group name
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> I might have written it as 
> my @column_def = map [ split ' ', $_, 2 ], split /\n/,
> <<'END_DEFINITION';
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> This seems a lot clearer to me.  I think it's the same result 
> (it looks the same when I print it).  But TMTOWTDI, of course!
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> The only part of Randal's code that I would call _really_ obscure
> is the /(.+)/g at the end.  
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The funky "<<'END_DEFEINITION' " construct is something I usually
associate with shell scripts.  It seems like pre-defining the
hash might have been clearer, but I guess this way he only had to
fill out the list one time and it generates both the columns array
and the hash table...  Interesting.

-Brent