[Purdue-pm] False Hubris code example
Michael Gribskov
gribskov at purdue.edu
Tue Aug 11 06:53:03 PDT 2009
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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