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[Walter Pienciak]

Yeow!  I didn't think my code snippet was that bad . . . ;^)

Walter

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 mstretchberry at mindspring.com wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Walter Pienciak <walter at frii.com>
> To: <boulder-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 9:17 AM
> Subject: RE: [boulder.pm] activity on this list
> 
> 
> : This has been a lot of help to me personally so far, both
> : Wayde's brief on typical activity on this kind of mailing list
> : and everyone's comments on Perl and life and what they're
> : hoping for.  I hope everyone else continues to send in a note to
> : this thread to help us figure things out.
> : 
> : I'm fighting a cold right now, but next week I think I'll look
> : at all the comments on time and day, and come up with a meeting
> : date (and place).
> : 
> : 
> : And now for something completely Perl:
> : 
> : When Perl style comes up, it usually is quickly apparent how
> : many ways Perl lets you hang yourself^W^Wdo things.
> : 
> : Here's a simple program that waffles on output:
> : 
> :     #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> : 
> :     use strict;
> : 
> :     my @opinions = ( "yes", "no" );
> :     my $baz = $opinions[ rand @opinions ];
> : 
> :     if ( $baz eq "yes" ) {
> :         print "foo\n";
> :     } else {
> :         print "bar\n";
> :     }
> : 
> : I'm wondering how many reasonably different ways the logic expressed in
> : the if/else code could have been written.
> : 
> :     $baz eq "yes" ? print "foo\n" : print "bar\n";
> : 
> : Any others?
> : 
> : 
> : Walter
> : 
>