SPUG: Perl tutorial: the grep, map and sort functions
Tim Maher/CONSULTIX
tim at consultix-inc.com
Sun Oct 1 16:46:57 CDT 2000
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:35:17PM -0700, Richard Anderson wrote:
> A revised version of the slides from my presentation at the last SPUG
> meeting is now available at
> http://www.unixscripts.com/rayco/support/perl_tutor.html (That's
Thanks!
> .../perl_tutor.html, if your email client is underlining the URL.) I invite
> suggestions on this doc, especially on the discussion of the linguistic
> origins of the term "Orcish maneuver", which is mostly speculative.
No need to speculate on its origins; Joseph N. Hall says on p. 48 of
his 1998 "Effective Perl Programming":
. . . this is something I have nicknamed the "Orcish Maneuver" (The
"or-cache" . . . Arrgh.) . . . It uses the little-known ||= operator.
> Richard.Anderson at raycosoft.com
-Tim
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