SPUG: Readable, well-written code (was: Best One-Liners and Scripts for UNIX)

[Brian Hatch]

You can't tell me that this part of your code:

> @doubled = map { ($x = $_) =~ s/(\d+)/$1 * 2/e;
                   ^^^^^^^^^

won't confuse and scare new users more than 'grep'
would.  Assignment in parens on the left of a s// ?
Now that's just substituting a not-immediately-obvious
grep feature with something that requires detailed
knowledge of the order of operations/precedence.


TMTOWTDIC

(There's more than one way to do it confusingly)


--
Brian Hatch                  "Don't use color
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