[Pdx-pm] Readable code
Jon LeVitre
jonlevitre at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 11 08:34:54 PST 2005
> I'm finding that placing an emphasis on writing readable
> code, and breaking code out into lots of subroutines
> doesn't seem to be considered "the Perl way" of doing
> things.
I think that the main reason for this is that parameter passing is one
of Perl's weaknesses.
In other languages it's easier to write a short function that takes a
couple of complex parameters. In Perl it's often easier to just
in-line the same function.
Jon
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