[Purdue-pm] False Hubris code example

[Joe Kline]

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Michael Gribskov wrote:
> 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
> 

Do you consider the rest of chromatic's program "bad" then?

I would probably just use File::Slurp unless some constraint wouldn't
let me. The one line is very idiomatic perl. Just some very deep
understanding of what perl can do.

joe
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