SPUG: flip-flops (was: looking for $variable for multiline print)

dancerboy dancerboy at strangelight.com
Tue Feb 5 22:24:30 CST 2002


At 4:15 pm -0800 2/5/02, Colin Meyer wrote:
>
>I really like the flip-flop operator.  It reminds me of learning boolean
>logic by wiring together nand gates.  It's also incredibly useful in
>one liners:
>   # print out the contents of <foo> </foo> tags:
>   pyx file.xml |perl -ne'print if /^\(foo/../^\)foo/' |pyxw
>
>Have fun,
>-C.
>

Ugh.  Reading that section of the docs made my brain hurt.  For code 
that anyone else is going to have to read, please consider 
implementing .. with "normal" boolean operators (and, or, not) 
instead.  Some language features are best left unused, IMO. 
(Remember, TMTOWTDI...)

-jason

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