Processing Data Partitions in Perl
Tom Hukins
tom at eborcom.com
Tue Jul 8 00:32:12 PDT 2008
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:54:35AM +0100, Ziya Suzen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Tom Hukins <tom at eborcom.com> wrote:
> [..]
> > 1 Cuba NB
> > 2 New Inn NB
> > 3 Spoons CMK
> > 4 Vaults Stony
> > 5 Crown Stony
>
> Assuming ordered by location I suppose?
Not necessarily ordered, although items with the same location must
appear consecutively. Number 6 must not have the location 'NB' or
'CMK', but it might have any other value.
> This hurts my brain... Too many code refs and recursion :-(
Yeah, same here. I posted it to the list in the hope that someone
would tell me how I could write it better. Everything I thought of
just made it look more complicated.
> But hey, if it works I don't want to know what's under the bonnet.
Exactly. I can think of a few CPAN modules that I use although their
internals look scary. I prefer to use clean, comprehensible code when
possible. I can also think of scary code that I try to avoid, but
that's another story..
> I think more object oriented sort of API might be easier to
> understand and use.
I like this idea. I like the 'column_name' argument for iterators
that return hash-based records, such as DBI's fetchrow_hashref(). The
constructor could also have a 'column_offset' argument for array-based
records, such as those returned by DBI's fetchrow_arrayref().
Thanks for the helpful comments,
Tom
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