[Purdue-pm] perl6 rpn calculator

Michael Gribskov gribskov at purdue.edu
Wed Mar 4 05:40:51 PST 2009


A good example of why shorter isn't the same as better.  the original 
version, while still somewhat cryptic, at least makes it explicit that 
the operation work on the stack, and where the operands are obtained.  
IMO the original is much better (more maintainable)

Joe Kline wrote:
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> That's some dense code.
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> http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/38580
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> joe
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