From: Michele Dondi <bik.mido@...>
Date: 2007-06-16T22:20:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Runtime disparity - Same program in Perl and Ruby

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:15:16 -0000, Kaldrenon <kaldrenon@gmail.com>
wrote:

>reply for making my code more "Perl"-y. I don't think many (if any)
>will actually change the way the program runs, though, will they? A

Just try.

>lot of the things I did work, but are styled more like Java, the
>language I use most. For example, I know I can just use $_ in sub
>file_seek, but I prefer to give my vars names that make more sense at
>a glance. But I'll keep all of your advice in mind.

$_ is a pronoun and it makes sense in short enough phrases. If you
have a C<for> loop with a two or three lines block (or even a C<for>
modifier) then use it. If it's 100 lines long (probably not a good
idea in its own) then use an explicit name.


Michele
-- 
{$_=pack'B8'x25,unpack'A8'x32,$a^=sub{pop^pop}->(map substr
(($a||=join'',map--$|x$_,(unpack'w',unpack'u','G^<R<Y]*YB='
.'KYU;*EVH[.FHF2W+#"\Z*5TI/ER<Z`S(G.DZZ9OX0Z')=~/./g)x2,$_,
256),7,249);s/[^\w,]/ /g;$ \=/^J/?$/:"\r";print,redo}#JAPH,