From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-10-06T06:49:58+09:00
Subject: Re: 1st program -- how would you improve this?

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I'd probably have used OpenURI and then

	text =3D open('http://www.example.com/').read

which I find a little more readable.

Oh, and probably also a HTML parser like Hpricot to make getting the
title tag more foolproof.

I also strongly disapprove of the Perl-ish use of global variables that
get set as a side-effect of a regex match. Notably because that's a)
relying on a side-effect of a function on b) a global variable. But
coding everything explicitly is a personal pet peeve of mine.

David Vallner


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