From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-07-11T06:42:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby T-Shirt Idea

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Xavier Noria" <fxn@hashref.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: Ruby T-Shirt Idea


> On Thursday 10 July 2003 22:32, Orion Hunter wrote:
> 
> > What we need is a code snippet that is excessively long and obfuscate
> > in Perl, such as a single line of code which has to wrap around the
> > t-shirt to be completed (with all the @ and $ symbols, etc.), and
> > then do the same in Ruby underneath... which only takes a fraction of
> > the width of the front side of the shirt.
> 
> IMHO it will be almost impossible to do that, being fair and idiomatic 
> with the Perl version, writing readable Perl, and getting that ratio at 
> the same time.
> 
> Though I would be glad if I was proved wrong :-).

I have little knowledge of Perl.

Suppose you wanted to iterate through an array and
print out the odd-numbered elements:

  array.each_with_index {|x,i| puts x if i % 2 == 1 }

How would that look in Perl?

Hal

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